Radiographic description of femoral tunnel placement expressed as intercondylar clock time in double-bundle anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 418-423

  Yamazaki, Junya ^a   Muneta, Takeshi ^a,b   Koga, Hideyuki ^a   Sekiya, Ichiro ^a   Ju, Young Jin ^a   Morito, Toshiyuki ^a   Yagishita, Kazuyoshi ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

ACL reconstruction; Femoral tunnel; Intercondylar clock time; Radiographic assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951553020     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-010-1243-9     Document Type: Article

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