How to avoid the risk of intraoperative cartilage damage in anatomic four tunnel double bundle anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 64-67

  Siebold, Rainer ^a   Benetos, Ioannis S ^b   Sartory, Nico ^a   He, Zhenming ^c   Hariri, Nawid ^a   Pässler, Hans H ^a  

^a ATOS KLINIK HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b KAT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY THIRD HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Anterior cruciate ligament; Anteromedial portal technique; Articular cartilage damage; Double bundle; Operative technique; Pitfalls; Tibial drilling

Indexed keywords

EID: 73249132149     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-009-0967-x     Document Type: Article

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