Changes in ACL length at different knee flexion angles: An in vivo biomechanical study

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 292-297

  Yoo, Yon Sik ^a,b   Jeong, Woon Seob ^a   Shetty, Nagraj S ^a   Ingham, Sheila J M ^b   Smolinski, Patrick ^b,c   Fu, Freddie ^b,c  

^a Hallym University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomical; Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL); Anteromedial (AM); Over the top; Posterolateral (PL)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; KNEE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; BIOMECHANICS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KNEE JOINT; MALE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951298913     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-009-0932-8     Document Type: Article

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