Temporal changes in posterior laxity after isolated posterior cruciate ligament injury: 35 Patients examined by stress radiography and MRI

Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 683-688

  Adachi, Nobuo ^a   Ochi, Mitsuo ^a   Sumen, Yoshio ^a   Deie, Masataka ^a   Murakami, Yuji ^a   Uchio, Yuji ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRACE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOINT LAXITY; KNEE LIGAMENT INJURY; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; POSTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT INJURY; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; KNEE INJURIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0346970715     PISSN: 00016470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016470310018207     Document Type: Article

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