The Achilles tendon insertion is crescent-shaped: An in vitro anatomic investigation

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 466, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2230-2237

  Lohrer, Heinz ^a   Arentz, Sabine ^a   Nauck, Tanja ^a   Dorn Lange, Nadja V ^a,b,c   Konerding, Moritz A ^b,c  

^a Institute for Sports Medicine Frankfurt am Main   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Institute of Zoology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; AGED; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CALCANEUS; DISSECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS; HISTOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ACHILLES TENDON; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCANEUS; DISSECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 50649086375     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-008-0298-0     Document Type: Article

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