Thirty years of arthroscopic meniscal suture: What's left to be done?

Orthopaedics and Traumatology: Surgery and Research

Volumn 95, Issue 8 SUPPL., 2009, Pages 85-96

  Seil, R ^a   VanGiffen, N ^a   Pape, D ^a  

^a Luxembourg Hospital Center   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY; CONVALESCENCE; CYST; DISCOID KNEE MENISCUS; HUMAN; IMPLANT; KNEE MENISCUS CYST; KNEE MENISCUS RUPTURE; MENISCAL REPAIR; MENISCAL TRANSPLANTATION; MENISCECTOMY; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTHROSCOPY; CHILD; CYSTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MENISCI, TIBIAL; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 71749084210     PISSN: 18770568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otsr.2009.09.004     Document Type: Review

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