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Arthroscopic Anatomy of the Knee

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Normal arthroscopic anatomy should be well known for an adequate and effective surgical intervention for successful results in surgery. Successful differentiation of normal tissue and pathological tissue is the first step of arthroscopic surgery. In this context, the arthroscopic anatomy of the knee joint is essential for knee arthroscopy which is the most commonly performed orthopaedic procedure [1, 2].

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  1. Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Ankara, Turkey

    Murat Bozkurt & Mustafa Akkaya

  2. Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir Katip Celebi University, Izmir, Turkey

    Mesut Tahta

  3. Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Etlik Lokman Hekim Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

    Özgür Kaya

  4. Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey

    Halil İbrahim Açar

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Bozkurt, M., Akkaya, M., Tahta, M., Kaya, Ö., Açar, H.İ. (2021). Arthroscopic Anatomy of the Knee. In: Bozkurt, M., Açar, H.İ. (eds) Clinical Anatomy of the Knee. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57578-6_2

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