Outcomes of posterior cruciate ligament treatment: A review of the evidence

Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy Review

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 280-291

  Hammoud, Sommer ^a   Reinhardt, Keith R ^a   Marx, Robert G ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

Author keywords

activity level; functional assessment; graft failure; ligaments; multiligamentous; posterior cruciate ligament; posterior knee laxity; surgical outcomes; systematic review

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES REFLEX; AUTOGRAFT; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRILL; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GRAFT FAILURE; HAMSTRING; HUMAN; JOINT LAXITY; KINEMATICS; KNEE FUNCTION; KNEE LIGAMENT INJURY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TENDON GRAFT; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACHILLES TENDON; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTHROSCOPY; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; KNEE INJURIES; KNEE JOINT; POSTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78649685988     PISSN: 10628592     EISSN: 15381951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JSA.0b013e3181eaf8b4     Document Type: Review

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