Why perform an ACL augmentation?

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 245-251

  Borbon, Carlo Angelo ^a   Mouzopoulos, George ^a   Siebold, Rainer ^a  

^a ATOS KLINIK HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anterior cruciate ligament; Augmentation; Healing; Partial tear; Proprioception; Vascularization

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INJURY; KNEE INJURY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; BIOMECHANICS; HUMANS; KNEE INJURIES;

EID: 84856098172     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-011-1565-2     Document Type: Article

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