Assessment of the "functional length" of the three bundles of the anterior cruciate ligament

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 167-174

  Iwahashi, Takehiko ^a   Shino, Konsei ^b   Nakata, Ken ^a   Nakamura, Norimasa ^a   Yamada, Yuzou ^a   Yoshikawa, Hideki ^a   Sugamoto, Kazuomi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

ACL; Elongation; In vivo; Kinematics; Three bundles

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; KNEE; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KNEE JOINT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR;

EID: 39049098176     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-007-0456-z     Document Type: Article

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