The position of anterior cruciate ligament in frontal and sagittal plane and its relation to the inner side of the lateral femoral condyle

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 887-894

  Stijak, Lazar ^a,d   Radonjić, Vidosava ^a,d   Nikolić, Valentina ^a,d   Blagojević, Zoran ^b,d   Herzog, Richard F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b Institute for Orthopaedic Surgery Banjica   (Serbia)

^c Kantonales Spital Sursee Wolhusen   (Switzerland)

^d NONE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

ACL; Femoral condyle; Frontal plane; MRI; Sagittal plane

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; KNEE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATELLOFEMORAL PAIN SYNDROME; PATHOLOGY; RUPTURE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATELLOFEMORAL PAIN SYNDROME; RUPTURE; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 70349760288     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-009-0739-7     Document Type: Article

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