Biomechanical Comparison of Figure-of-8 Versus Cylindrical Tibial Inlay Constructs for Arthroscopic Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

Arthroscopy - Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 977-983

  Ruberte Thiele, Ramon A ^a   Campbell, Robert Brick ^b   Amendola, Annunziato ^c   Sekiya, Jon K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Virginia Institute for Sports Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; AGED; ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE PLUG; CADAVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KNEE ARTHROSCOPY; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; POSTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; RIGIDITY; TENDON GRAFT; TENDON SUTURE; TENSILE STRENGTH; TIBIA;

ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; AGED; ARTHROSCOPY; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SUTURES; TENSILE STRENGTH; TIBIA; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 77953960314     PISSN: 07498063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arthro.2009.11.006     Document Type: Article

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