Long-term outcome after meniscal repair

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 236-241

  Tengrootenhuysen, Mike ^a   Meermans, Geert ^a,b   Pittoors, Kathleen ^a,b   van Riet, Roger ^a,c   Victor, Jan ^d  

^a ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b CATHARINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c Monica Hospital   (Belgium)

^d Dept of Psychiatry   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Clinical outcome; Knee arthroscopy; Long term; Meniscal repair; Radiological evaluation; Success factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751584735     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-010-1286-y     Document Type: Article

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