The relationship between femoral tunnels created by the transtibial, anteromedial portal, and outside-in techniques and the anterior cruciate ligament footprint

American Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 882-888

  Gadikota, Hemanth R ^a   Sim, Jae Ang ^a,b   Hosseini, Ali ^b   Gill, Thomas J ^b   Li, Guoan ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Gachon University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

ACL reconstruction; anteromedial portal technique; outside in technique; transtibial technique

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; CADAVER; FEMUR; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; JOINT INSTABILITY; KNEE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; TIBIA;

AGED; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; CADAVER; FEMUR; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; KNEE JOINT; MIDDLE AGED; TIBIA;

EID: 84859481716     PISSN: 03635465     EISSN: 15523365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0363546511434276     Document Type: Article

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