Does bone impaction technique reduce tunnel enlargement in ACL reconstruction?

International Orthopaedics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 407-412

  Gokce, Alper ^a   Beyzadeoglu, Tahsin ^a   Ozyer, Fatih ^b   Bekler, Halil ^a   Erdogan, Fahri ^b  

^a YEDITEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIGAMENT SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTHROSCOPY; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KNEE INJURIES; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROBABILITY; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TENDONS; TIBIA; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 64249095343     PISSN: 03412695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-007-0496-5     Document Type: Article

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