Patellar tendon orientation and patellar tracking in male and female knees

Journal of Orthopaedic Research

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 322-328

  Varadarajan, Kartik M ^a,b   Gill, Thomas J ^a   Freiberg, Andrew A ^a   Rubash, Harry E ^a   Li, Guoan ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Knee kinematics; Patellar tendon orientation; Patellar tracking; Sex difference; Trochlear groove geometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATELLA TENDON; PATELLOFEMORAL JOINT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; FEMUR; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATELLAR LIGAMENT; PATELLOFEMORAL JOINT; ROTATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TIBIA; WEIGHT-BEARING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73949095935     PISSN: 07360266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jor.20977     Document Type: Article

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