The resident's ridge as an arthroscopic landmark for anatomical femoral tunnel drilling in ACL reconstruction

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1164-1168

  Shino, Konsei ^a   Suzuki, Tomoyuki ^b   Iwahashi, Takehiko ^b   Mae, Tatsuo ^b   Nakamura, Norimasa ^b   Nakata, Ken ^b   Nakagawa, Shigeto ^c  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c YUKIOKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anatomical femoral tunnel; Arthroscopic ACL reconstruction; Notchplasty; Radiofrequency energy; Resident's ridge; Three dimensional computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTHROPLASTY; ARTICLE; BONE PATELLAR TENDON BONE GRAFT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMUR; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INJURY; KNEE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTHROPLASTY; BONE-PATELLAR TENDON-BONE GRAFT; FEMUR; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955853827     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-009-0979-6     Document Type: Article

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