Posterior cruciate ligament avulsion repair /
إصلاح قلع الرباط الصليبي الخلفي
Mosleh Saleh Ali Ahmed Salman ; Supervised Hisham Misbah , Ashraf Moharram
- Cairo : Mosleh Saleh Ali Ahmed Salman , 2012
- 147 P. : facsimiles ; 25cm
Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Orthopedic Surgery
The PCL is approximately twice as strong as the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and represents the strongest ligament of the knee, which plays an important role in stabilizing the knee joint. A rupture of PCL often leads to an increased posterior tibial translation with full laxity at 90 degrees of flexion and a small rotation or lateral instability