All-inside ACL: Retroconstruction controversies

Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy Review

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 20-26

  Lubowitz, James H ^a  

^a Taos Orthopaedic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

ACL; All inside; Retroconstruction; Retrodrill; Retroscrew; Technique

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; ARTHROSCOPY; BIOMECHANICS; BLOWOUT FRACTURE; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTHROSCOPY; BIOMECHANICS; BONE SCREWS; BONE-PATELLAR TENDON-BONE GRAFT; HUMANS; KNEE INJURIES; ORBITAL FRACTURES; ORTHOPEDICS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TIBIA;

EID: 77149177981     PISSN: 10628592     EISSN: 15381951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JSA.0b013e3181bf67ae     Document Type: Review

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