Meniscal repair using the inside-out suture technique

Techniques in Knee Surgery

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 136-146

  Johnson, Don ^a   Darwish, Husam ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Inside out technique arthroscopic surgery; Meniscal repair

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT INJURY; ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY; BIOMECHANICS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INCISION; INFECTION; INSIDE OUT SUTURE TECHNIQUE; ISOMETRIC EXERCISE; KNEE ARTHROSCOPY; KNEE FUNCTION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENISCAL REPAIR; MENISCECTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT POSITIONING; POSTEROLATERAL INCISION; POSTEROMEDIAL INCISION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; REDUCTION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD; SYNOVITIS; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 34548419655     PISSN: 15360636     EISSN: 15381935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/btk.0b013e318149e8cb     Document Type: Review

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