ACL mismatch reconstructions: Influence of different tunnel placement strategies in single-bundle ACL reconstructions on the knee kinematics

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1551-1558

  Herbort, Mirco ^a   Lenschow, Simon ^a   Fu, Freddie H ^b   Petersen, Wolf ^c   Zantop, Thore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c Martin Luther Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anatomic single bundle reconstruction; Mismatch; Robotics; Rotational instability; Tunnel malplacement

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMAN; JOINT INSTABILITY; KNEE; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTIC SURGERY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TENSILE STRENGTH; TIBIA;

AGED; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENSILE STRENGTH; TIBIA;

EID: 78649955087     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-010-1163-8     Document Type: Article

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