Graft healing in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 935-947

  Ekdahl, Max ^b   Wang, James H C ^a   Ronga, Mario ^a   Fu, Freddie H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL DIPRECA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Anterior cruciate ligament; Graft; Healing; Tendon; Tunnel

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTICLE; BONE PATELLAR TENDON BONE GRAFT; DISEASE MODEL; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; BONE-PATELLAR TENDON-BONE GRAFT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 52949105338     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-008-0584-0     Document Type: Article

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