Treatment for acute anterior cruciate ligament tear: Five year outcome of randomised trial

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 346, Issue 7895, 2013, Pages

  Frobell, Richard B ^a   Roos, Harald P ^a   Roos, Ewa M ^b   Roemer, Frank W ^c,d   Ranstam, Jonas ^a   Lohmander, L Stefan ^a,b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT INJURY; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY INTERVENTION; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KNEE INJURY AND OSTEOARTHRITIS OUTCOME SCORE; KNEE INSTABILITY; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENISCAL SURGERY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHORT FORM 36; SWEDEN; TEGNER ACTIVITY SCORE; THERAPY DELAY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; KNEE INJURIES; MALE; MENISCI, TIBIAL; OSTEOARTHRITIS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SELF REPORT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874056593     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f232     Document Type: Article

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