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Knee Ligament Injuries

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Bone and Joint Injuries

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The knee is stabilized by four major ligaments: the anterior cruciate ligament, the posterior cruciate ligament, the medial collateral ligament, and the lateral collateral ligament. Injuries of these ligaments are frequent because of the increased sports participation in our population.

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  1. Klinik für Unfallchirurgie und Orthopädie, Martin-Luther-Krankenhaus, Caspar-Theyß-Str. 27-29, 14193, Berlin, Germany

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  1. General Hospital Celle, Celle, Germany

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  2. University of Zurich Department of Trauma Surgery, Zürich, Switzerland

    Otmar Trentz

  3. Klinische Abt. Allgemeinchirurgie, Medizinische Universität Graz Universitätsklinik für Chirurgie, Graz, Austria

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Forkel, P., Petersen, W. (2014). Knee Ligament Injuries. In: Oestern, HJ., Trentz, O., Uranues, S. (eds) Bone and Joint Injuries. European Manual of Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38388-5_24

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