Biomechanical evaluation of press-fit femoral fixation technique in ACL reconstruction

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 528-533

  Pavlik, Attila ^a   Hidas, Péter ^a   Czigány, Tibor ^b   Berkes, István ^a  

^a National Institute for Sports Medicine   (Hungary)

^b BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Anterior cruciate ligament; Patellar tendon graft; Press fit fixation; Ultimate tensile strength

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE; BONE PLATE; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DEVICE; DRILL; FEMUR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KNEE SURGERY; LIGAMENT SURGERY; PATELLA LIGAMENT; PROSTHESIS FIXATION; RIGIDITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENDON GRAFT; TENSILE STRENGTH;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATELLA; PATELLAR LIGAMENT; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 12444276618     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-003-0452-x     Document Type: Article

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