Treating Extensor Mechanism Disruption after Total Knee Arthroplasty

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 416, Issue , 2003, Pages 98-104

  Barrack, Robert L ^a   Stanley, Tom ^b   Butler, R Allen ^b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; BONE GRAFT; CALCANEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPOSITE GRAFT; CONFERENCE PAPER; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE EXTENSOR DISRUPTION; KNEE FUNCTION; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; MALE; PATELLA; PATELLA TENDON; PATIENT MOBILITY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RUPTURE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENDON GRAFT; TIBIA; TIBIA TUBERCLE; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; WALKING AID;

EID: 0242694093     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000092993.90435.69     Document Type: Conference Paper

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