Morphometric side-to-side differences in human cruciate ligament insertions

Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 398-402

  Dargel, Jens ^a   Pohl, Peer ^b   Tzikaras, Prokopios ^c   Koebke, Juergen ^b  

^a GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Cruciate ligaments; Knee; Reconstruction; Surgery; Tunnel position

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTICLE; BONE GRAFT; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE REMODELING; CADAVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSECTION; FEMALE; FEMUR; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KINEMATICS; KNEE; KNEE CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; KNEE LIGAMENT; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TIBIA; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; BIOMECHANICS; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CADAVER; DISSECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; POSTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33746776116     PISSN: 09301038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00276-006-0107-y     Document Type: Article

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