Outcomes of meniscal repair: Minimum of 2-year follow-up

Bulletin: Hospital for Joint Diseases

Volumn 63, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 100-104

  Tuckman, David V ^a,b   Bravman, Jonathan T ^a   Lee, Susan S ^a   Rosen, Jeffrey E ^a   Sherman, Orrin H ^a  

^a NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RUPTURE; BONE SCREW; CHILD; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KNEE ARTHROSCOPY; KNEE INJURY; KNEE MENISCUS RUPTURE; LIGAMENT SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENISCECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SPORT INJURY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTHROSCOPY; CHILD; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KNEE INJURIES; MENISCI, TIBIAL; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 33745727813     PISSN: 00185647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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