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Ribbonlike Anatomy of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament from Its Femoral Insertion to the Midsubstance

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Recently the configuration of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) from its direct femoral insertion to the midsubstance was found to be flat. This might have an important impact on anatomical ACL reconstruction.

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  1. Head of Orthopaedic and Sports Traumatology Department, Carolina Medical Center, Pory 78, Warsaw, 02-757, Poland

    Robert Śmigielski, Urszula Zdanowicz MD & Michał Drwięga

  2. Department of Descriptive and Clinical Anatomy, Medical University of Warsaw, Chalbinskiego 5, Warsaw, 02-004, Poland

    Bogdan Ciszek

  3. Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology, Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 307, Heidelberg, 69120, Germany

    Rainer Siebold

  4. HKF: Center for Specialised Hip-Knee-Foot Surgery, ATOS Hospital Heidelberg, Bismarckstr. 9-15, Heidelberg, 69115, Germany

    Rainer Siebold

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Śmigielski, R., Zdanowicz, U., Drwięga, M., Ciszek, B., Siebold, R. (2014). Ribbonlike Anatomy of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament from Its Femoral Insertion to the Midsubstance. In: Siebold, R., Dejour, D., Zaffagnini, S. (eds) Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45349-6_1

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