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Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

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01-07-2003 | Editorial

ACL-reconstructions in elderly patients

Author: Ejnar Eriksson

Published in: Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy | Issue 4/2003

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When we once started reconstructing the ACL with patellar tendon in the Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm in the mid-1960s, we had a rule to never perform this surgery on patients more than 40 years old. Our reasons for this were that athletes had usually given up their career by that age and that most people lived a sedentary life after 40 to 50 years of age. In retrospect I am not sure those arguments held true even then. …

Title: ACL-reconstructions in elderly patients
Author: Ejnar Eriksson
Publication date: 01-07-2003
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy / Issue 4/2003
Print ISSN: 0942-2056
Electronic ISSN: 1433-7347
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00167-003-0405-4

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