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Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

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Aim of the Chapter: In this chapter, it is shown how recent advances in imaging technology and anatomic research using imaging technology have defined the ACL anatomy and improved the anatomic approach to ACL reconstruction.

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  1. Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology, Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 307, Bismarckstr, 9-15, Heidelberg, 69115, Germany

    Rainer Siebold MD & Georgios Karidakis MD

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

    Rainer Siebold MD & Georgios Karidakis MD

  3. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Volker Musahl, Yuichi Hoshino & Christopher D. Murawski

  4. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kobe University, Kobe Kaisei Hospital, Kobe, Japan

    Yuichi Hoshino

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Siebold, R., Musahl, V., Hoshino, Y., Murawski, C.D., Karidakis, G. (2014). Diagnostics. 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_15

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