Treatment of lateral patella dislocation in the skeletally immature athlete

Operative Techniques in Sports Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 83-92

  Sillanpää, Petri J ^a   Mäenpää, Heikki M ^a   Arendt, Elizabeth A ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Injury; Knee; Lateral patella dislocation; Medial patellofemoral ligament; Patella; Skeletally immature

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; ATHLETE; ATHLETIC REHABILITATION; BONE REMODELING; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KNEE ASPIRATION; KNEE FUNCTION; KNEE INJURY; LATERAL PATELLA DISLOCATION; MEDIAL PATELLOFEMORAL LIGAMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATELLA ALTA; PATELLA DISLOCATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION;

EID: 77953350891     PISSN: 10601872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.otsm.2009.12.011     Document Type: Article

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