Why arthroscopic partial meniscectomy?

Annals of Translational Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 15, 2015, Pages

  Lyu, Shaw Ruey ^a,b  

^a BUDDHIST TZU CHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b TZU CHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Arthroscopic meniscectomy; Knee pain; Meniscus tear; Osteoarthritis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015461352     PISSN: 23055839     EISSN: 23055847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3978/j.issn.2305-5839.2015.07.04     Document Type: Editorial

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