Posterior Tibial Subluxation and Short-Term Arthritis Resulting from Failed Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

Arthroscopy

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1-5

  Mavrodontidis, Alexandras N ^a,b   Papadonikolakis, Anastasios ^a,b   Moebius, Ulf G ^a,b   Gelalis, Loannis ^a,b   Motsis, Efstathios ^a,b   Soucacos, Panayotis N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Failed pcl reconstruction; Femoral tunnel; Revision

Indexed keywords

EID: 63549134396     PISSN: 07498063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jars.2003.50163     Document Type: Article

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