Side differences in the anatomy of human knee joints

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1368-1376

  Dargel, Jens ^a   Feiser, Janna ^a   Gotter, Martina ^c   Pennig, Dietmar ^b   Koebke, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b ST VINZENZ HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^c Perry Physical Therapy   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Contralateral knee; Cruciate ligament; Knee; Side differences

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CADAVER; FEMALE; FEMUR; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; KNEE; LIGAMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; TIBIA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHROPOMETRY; CADAVER; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; LIGAMENTS, ARTICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIBIA;

EID: 70350736228     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-009-0870-5     Document Type: Article

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