Credibility and quality of meta-analyses addressing graft choice in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: a systematic review

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 538-551

  Kurz, Adrian ^a   Evaniew, Nathan ^a   Yeung, Marco ^a   Samuelsson, Kristian ^b,c   Peterson, Devin ^a   Ayeni, Olufemi R ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

ACL; Anterior cruciate ligament; Bone patellar tendon bone; BPTB; Hamstrings tendon; HT; Meta analysis; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; BONE; CHECKLIST; COCHRANE LIBRARY; COORDINATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMBASE; HAMSTRING; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; NORTH AMERICA; PATELLAR LIGAMENT; PUBLICATION; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RETURN TO SPORT; SURGEON; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TENDON GRAFT; BONE PATELLAR TENDON BONE GRAFT; HAMSTRING TENDON; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PROCEDURES; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; BONE-PATELLAR TENDON-BONE GRAFTING; HAMSTRING TENDONS; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84982307705     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-016-4282-z     Document Type: Review

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