Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: Autogenous Quadriceps Tendon-Bone Compared With Bone-Patellar Tendon-Bone Grafts at 2-Year Follow-up

Arthroscopy - Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 137-144

  Kim, Sung Jae ^a   Kumar, Praveen ^b   Oh, Kyung Soo ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Lisie Hospital   (India)

Author keywords

Accelerated rehabilitation program; Anterior cruciate ligament; Anterior knee pain; Autogenous bone patellar tendon bone graft; Autogenous quadriceps tendon bone graft; Knee stability

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; ARTHROMETER; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; BONE PATELLAR TENDON BONE GRAFT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KNEE FUNCTION; KNEE INSTABILITY; KNEE PAIN; MALE; PATIENT POSITIONING; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUADRICEPS TENDON; QUADRICEPS TENDON BONE GRAFT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTHROSCOPY; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; BRACES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; MALE; MENISCI, TIBIAL; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC FIXATION DEVICES; PAIN; PATELLAR LIGAMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTURE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TENDONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58549084165     PISSN: 07498063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arthro.2008.09.014     Document Type: Article

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