Management of acute lateral ankle ligament injury in the athlete

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1390-1395

  van den Bekerom, Michel P J ^a   Kerkhoffs, Gino M M J ^a   McCollum, Graham A ^b,c   Calder, James D F ^b,c   van Dijk, C Niek ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c FORTIUS CLINIC   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ankle; Athletes; Injury; Lateral; Ligament; Sports; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ANKLE; ANKLE INJURY; ANKLE LATERAL LIGAMENT; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; REVIEW; SPORT INJURY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANKLE INJURIES; ANKLE JOINT; ATHLETIC INJURIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LATERAL LIGAMENT, ANKLE; MALE;

EID: 84877919678     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-012-2252-7     Document Type: Review

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