Tunnel positioning in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: How long is the learning curve?

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1576-1582

  Hohmann, Erik ^a,b   Bryant, Adam ^c   Tetsworth, Kevin ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction; Knee arthroscopy; Learning curve; Transtibial technique; Tunnel placement

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTHROSCOPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ECHOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; EVALUATION; FEMUR; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING CURVE; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATELLA LIGAMENT; PLASTIC SURGERY; RADIOGRAPHY; TIBIA; TIME; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTHROSCOPY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; FEMUR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEARNING CURVE; PATELLAR LIGAMENT; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIBIA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78649944133     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-010-1183-4     Document Type: Article

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