Potential Risks of Femoral Tunnel Drilling Through the Far Anteromedial Portal: A Cadaveric Study

Arthroscopy - Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 481-487

  Nakamura, Mitsuhiro ^a   Deie, Masataka ^a   Shibuya, Hayatoshi ^a   Nakamae, Atsuo ^a   Adachi, Nobuo ^a   Aoyama, Hirohiko ^a   Ochi, Mitsuo ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cadaveric knee; Cartilage damage; Double bundle anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction; Far anteromedial portal; Femoral tunnel; Nerve damage

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT INJURY; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; CADAVER; CARTILAGE INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRILL; FEMALE; FEMUR; FEMUR CONDYLE; HUMAN; KNEE LIGAMENT INJURY; KNEE SURGERY; LIGAMENT SURGERY; MALE; NERVE INJURY; PATELLA TENDON; PERONEUS NERVE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; CADAVER; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; KNEE INJURIES; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PERONEAL NERVE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 67349257963     PISSN: 07498063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arthro.2008.11.010     Document Type: Article

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