Anatomical placement of double femoral tunnels in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: Anteromedial tunnel first or posterolateral tunnel first?

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 424-431

  Taketomi, Shuji ^a   Nakagawa, Takumi ^a   Takeda, Hideki ^a   Nakajima, Kohei ^a   Nakayama, Shuichi ^a   Fukai, Atsushi ^a   Hirota, Jinso ^a   Kachi, Yoshinori ^a   Kawano, Hirotaka ^a   Miura, Toshiki ^a   Fukui, Naoshi ^a   Nakamura, Kozo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL); Double bundle ACL reconstruction; Femoral tunnel; Navigation; Three dimensional CT

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951556996     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-010-1246-6     Document Type: Article

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