CORR Insights®: Does Knee Flexion Influence the Relationship Between the Femoral Tunnel and the Lateral Anatomic Structures During ACL Reconstruction?

Overview

Journal Clin Orthop Relat Res

Publisher Wolters Kluwer

Specialty Orthopedics

Date 2019 Aug 8

PMID 31389884

Authors

Freddie H Fu

Affiliations

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