Injuries to the infrapatellar branch(es) of the saphenous nerve in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction with four-strand hamstring tendon autograft: Vertical versus horizontal incision for harvest

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 789-793

  Papastergiou, Stergios G ^a,b   Voulgaropoulos, Harilaos ^a   Mikalef, Petros ^a   Ziogas, Evangelos ^a   Pappis, Georgios ^a   Giannakopoulos, Ioannis ^a  

^a Aristotle University of Thessaloniki   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction; Infrapatellar branch; Saphenous nerve

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTHROSCOPY; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INJURY; INNERVATION; KNEE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TENDON; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTHROSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; KNEE JOINT; MALE; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TENDONS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 33750194516     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-005-0008-3     Document Type: Article

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