Increased medial tibial slope in teenage pediatric population with open physes and anterior cruciate ligament injuries

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 372-377

  Vyas, Shail ^a,b   van Eck, Carola F ^b   Vyas, Nina ^c   Fu, Freddie H ^b   Otsuka, Norman Y ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

ACL; Anterior cruciate ligament; Notch width index; Open physes; Pediatric; Posterior tibial slope

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951554467     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-010-1216-z     Document Type: Article

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