Pediatric anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

Current Reviews in Musculoskeletal Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 37-44

  McConkey, Mark O ^a   Bonasia, Davide Edoardo ^b   Amendola, Annunziato ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

ACL; Anterior cruciate ligament; Child; Epiphyseal; Growth arrest; Growth disturbance; Immature; Knee; Over the top; Pediatric; Physeal sparing; Physis; Prepubertal; Skeletally immature; Transphyseal

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT INJURY; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GROWTH DISORDER; HUMAN; KNEE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION CARE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 79956364024     PISSN: 1935973X     EISSN: 19359748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12178-011-9076-9     Document Type: Article

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