Anterior cruciate ligament graft choices

Sports Health

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 63-68

  Macaulay, Alec A ^a   Perfetti, Dean C ^a   Levine, William N ^a  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

allograft; anterior cruciate ligament; autograft; reconstruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855165092     PISSN: 19417381     EISSN: 19410921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1941738111409890     Document Type: Article

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