Full-thickness knee articular cartilage defects in national football league combine athletes undergoing magnetic resonance imaging: Prevalence, location, and association with previous surgery

Arthroscopy - Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 798-806

  Nepple, Jeffrey J ^a   Wright, Rick W ^a   Matava, Matthew J ^a   Brophy, Robert H ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; ARTHROSCOPY; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; ATHLETE; BODY MASS; CHONDROPLASTY; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMUR CONDYLE; FOOTBALL; FULL THICKNESS KNEE ARTICULAR CARTILAGE DEFECT; HUMAN; JOINT EFFUSION; KNEE DISEASE; KNEE INJURY; KNEE MENISCUS RUPTURE; KNEE SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL HISTORY; MENISCAL REPAIR; MENISCAL SURGERY; MENISCECTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOCHONDRITIS DISSECANS; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PATELLA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RUNNING; TIBIA;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ATHLETES; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; FOOTBALL; HUMANS; KNEE INJURIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENISCI, TIBIAL; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861575416     PISSN: 07498063     EISSN: 15263231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arthro.2011.11.010     Document Type: Article

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