Varying femoral tunnels between the anatomical footprint and isometric positions: Effect on kinematics of the anterior cruciate ligaments-reconstructed knee

American Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 712-718

  Musahl, Volker ^a   Plakseychuk, Anton ^a   VanScyoc, Andrew ^a   Sasaki, Tomoyuki ^a   Debski, Richard E ^a   McMahon, Patrick J ^a   Fu, Freddie H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Kaufmann Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Active robotic surgery; Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction; Femoral tunnel position; Robotic universal force moment sensor (UFS) testing system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; ELECTRONIC SENSOR; FORCE; HAMSTRING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ISOMETRICS; KINEMATICS; KNEE FUNCTION; LIGAMENT SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; TENDON GRAFT; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; FEMUR; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; KNEE JOINT; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; POSTURE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REFERENCE VALUES; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 17844394938     PISSN: 03635465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0363546504271747     Document Type: Article

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