Anterior cruciate ligament tunnel position measurement reliability on 3-dimensional reconstructed computed tomography

Arthroscopy - Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Lertwanich, Pisit ^a,c   Martins, Cesar A Q ^a   Asai, Shigehiro ^a   Ingham, Sheila J M ^a   Smolinski, Patrick ^a,b   Fu, Freddie H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^c MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMUR CONDYLE; HUMAN; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIBIA;

EID: 79952184081     PISSN: 07498063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arthro.2010.08.018     Document Type: Article

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