All-Inside Suture Technique Using Two Posteromedial Portals in a Medial Meniscus Posterior Horn Tear

Arthroscopy - Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 101-108

  Ahn, Jin Hwan ^a,b   Kim, Seung Ho ^a   Yoo, Jae Chul ^a   Wang, Joon Ho ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Anterior cruciate ligament injury; Arthroscopic all inside suture; Double posteromedial portal; Medial meniscus posterior horn tear

Indexed keywords

ALL INSIDE SUTURING METHOD; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RUPTURE; ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY; ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KNEE ARTHROSCOPY; KNEE INSTABILITY; KNEE MENISCUS; KNEE MENISCUS RUPTURE; LIGAMENT SURGERY; MEDIAL MENISCUS POSTERIOR HORN TEAR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTEROMEDIAL PORTAL METHOD; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0347951316     PISSN: 07498063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arthro.2003.11.008     Document Type: Article

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