Effectiveness of a footprint guide to establish an anatomic femoral tunnel in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: Computed tomography evaluation in a cadaveric model

Arthroscopy - Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 817-824

  Gelber, Pablo Eduardo ^a,b   Erquicia, Juan ^b   Abat, Ferrán ^a   Torres, Raúl ^a   Pelfort, Xavier ^a,b   Rodriguez Baeza, Alfonso ^a   Alomar, Xavier ^c   Monllau, Juan Carlos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT UNIVERSITARI DEXEUS   (Spain)

^c NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRILL; FEMALE; FEMORAL TUNNEL; FEMUR; FEMUR CONDYLE; HUMAN; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; ARTHROSCOPY; CADAVER; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KNEE INJURIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79957919343     PISSN: 07498063     EISSN: 15263231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arthro.2011.02.004     Document Type: Article

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