The arrangement and the attachment areas of three ACL bundles

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 127-134

  Otsubo, Hidenori ^a   Shino, Konsei ^b   Suzuki, Daisuke ^a   Kamiya, Tomoaki ^a   Suzuki, Tomoyuki ^a   Watanabe, Kota ^a   Fujimiya, Mineko ^a   Iwahashi, Takehiko ^c   Yamashita, Toshihiko ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL); Attachment; Fiber arrangement; Three ACL bundles

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FEMUR; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; KNEE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; TIBIA;

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; TIBIA;

EID: 84855197159     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-011-1576-z     Document Type: Article

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