Chronic multiple knee ligament injuries: Epidemiological analysis of more than one hundred cases

Clinics

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-8

  Bispo Jr , Rosalvo Zosimo ^a   Kawano, Cezar Teruyuki ^b   Guedes, Alexandre Vieira ^b  

^a CENTRO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE JOÃO PESSOA   (Brazil)

^b CEMKA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Epidemiological analysis; Multiple ligament knee injury; Posterolateral knee injury; Posteromedial knee injury; Surgical treatment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; KNEE INJURY; KNEE LIGAMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE INJURIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 40749148856     PISSN: 18075932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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