Current knowledge in the anatomy of the human anterior cruciate ligament

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1075-1084

  Bicer, Elcil Kaya ^a,b   Lustig, Sebastien ^a   Servien, Elvire ^a   Selmi, Tarik Ait Si ^a   Neyret, Philippe ^a  

^a HOSPICES CIVILS DE LYON   (France)

^b EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Anterior cruciate ligament; Anteromedial bundle; Double bundle; Posterolateral bundle

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTHROSCOPY; ARTICLE; FEMUR; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; KNEE; PHYSIOLOGY; TIBIA;

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTHROSCOPY; FEMUR; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; TIBIA;

EID: 77954758832     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-009-0993-8     Document Type: Article

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