Function of posterior cruciate ligament bundles during in vivo knee flexion

American Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1507-1512

  Papannagari, Ramprasad ^a   DeFrate, Louis E ^a,c   Nha, Kyung W ^a,b   Moses, Jeremy M ^a   Moussa, Mohamed ^a   Gill, Thomas J ^a   Li, Guoan ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Inje University   (South Korea)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Double bundle reconstruction; In vivo kinematics; Posterior cruciate ligament; Posterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; KNEE FUNCTION; KNEE LIGAMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KNEE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; POSTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT;

EID: 34548126180     PISSN: 03635465     EISSN: 15523365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0363546507300061     Document Type: Article

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