Biomechanical comparison of different graft positions for single-bundle anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 816-823

  Kato, Yuki ^a,c   Maeyama, Akira ^a   Lertwanich, Pisit ^a   Wang, Joon Ho ^a   Ingham, Sheila J M ^a   Kramer, Scott ^b   Martins, Cesar Q A ^a   Smolinski, Patrick ^a,b   Fu, Freddie H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anatomic; Anterior cruciate ligament; Anterior tibial translation; In situ force; Single bundle

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875378280     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-012-1951-4     Document Type: Article

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