Roles of the anterior cruciate ligament and the medial collateral ligament in preventing valgus instability
β Scribed by Hideo Matsumoto; Yasunori Suda; Toshiro Otani; Yasuo Niki; Bahaa B. Seedhom; Kyosuke Fujikawa
- Publisher
- Springer Japan
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 133 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0949-2658
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
In a prospective study, 14 patients with a complete rupture of both the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and the medial collateral ligament (MCL) were treated by reconstruction of the ACL alone. The torn MCL was not addressed. The initial instability was documented clinically and by stress radiograp
## Abstract The differential capacities of the anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments to heal may be related to differences in cellular function. This study tested the hypothesis that differential expression of integrins occurs in these ligaments after injury. The integrins are a family