An isolated rupture of the posterior cruciate ligament results in reduced preoperative knee function in comparison with an anterior cruciate ligament injury

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1017-1022

  Årøen, Asbjørn ^a   Sivertsen, Einar Andreas ^a   Owesen, Christian ^a   Engebretsen, Lars ^b,c   Granan, Lars Petter ^b,c  

^a AKERSHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b Norwegian Knee Ligament Registry   (Norway)

^c OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Anterior cruciate ligament; Knee function; Posterior cruciate ligament; Registries; Time from injury to surgery

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876343444     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-012-2132-1     Document Type: Article

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