Tunnel Position and Relationship to Postoperative Knee Laxity after Double-Bundle Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction with a Transtibial Technique

American Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 698-706

  Tsuda, Eiichi ^a   Ishibashi, Yasuyuki ^a   Fukuda, Akira ^a   Yamamoto, Yuji ^a   Tsukada, Harehiko ^a   Ono, Shuichi ^b  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

anterior cruciate ligament; double bundle reconstruction; knee laxity; tunnel position

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTHROSCOPY; ARTICLE; BONE MALFORMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMAN; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; JOINT INSTABILITY; KNEE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY; TIBIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTHROSCOPY; BONE MALALIGNMENT; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; KNEE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TIBIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954719743     PISSN: 03635465     EISSN: 15523365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0363546509351561     Document Type: Article

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