Lateral meniscal variants

Operative Techniques in Orthopaedics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 234-244

  Jordan, Michael R ^a,b,c  

^a Middle Tennessee Medical Center   (United States)

^b Murfreesboro Orthopedics and Sports Medicine   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Discoid lateral meniscus

Indexed keywords

EID: 26444551048     PISSN: 10486666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1048-6666(00)80010-5     Document Type: Article

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