Clinical outcomes after treatment of quadriceps tendon ruptures show equal results independent of suture anchor or transosseus repair technique used – A pilot study

Stefan Plesser; Mohammad Keilani; Gyoergy Vekszler; Timothy Hasenoehrl; Stefano Palma; Martin Reschl; Richard Crevenna; Stefan Hajdu; Harald Kurt Widhalm

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0194376

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Clinical outcomes after treatment of quadriceps tendon ruptures show equal results independent of suture anchor or transosseus repair technique used – A pilot study

Stefan Plesser ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Stefan Plesser, Mohammad Keilani

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Trauma Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Mohammad Keilani ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Stefan Plesser, Mohammad Keilani

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Physical Medicine, Rehabilitation and Occupational Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Gyoergy Vekszler,

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Trauma Surgery and Sports Traumatology, Danube Hospital, Vienna, Austria
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Timothy Hasenoehrl,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Physical Medicine, Rehabilitation and Occupational Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Stefano Palma,

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Physical Medicine, Rehabilitation and Occupational Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Martin Reschl,

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Trauma Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Richard Crevenna,

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Physical Medicine, Rehabilitation and Occupational Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Stefan Hajdu,

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Trauma Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Harald Kurt Widhalm

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: harald.widhalm@meduniwien.ac.at

Affiliation Department of Trauma Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Clinical outcomes after treatment of quadriceps tendon ruptures show equal results independent of suture anchor or transosseus repair technique used – A pilot study

Stefan Plesser,
Mohammad Keilani,
Gyoergy Vekszler,
Timothy Hasenoehrl,
Stefano Palma,
Martin Reschl,
Richard Crevenna,
Stefan Hajdu,
Harald Kurt Widhalm

Published: March 19, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194376

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