Mechanoreceptors of patellar tendon used for ACL reconstruction: Rabbit experiments

Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 559-562

  Wada, Yukihisa ^a   Takahashi, Toshiaki ^a   Michinaka, Yasunori ^a   Morisawa, Yutaka ^a   Yamamoto, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; KNEE; LIGAMENT SURGERY; MECHANORECEPTOR; MICROSCOPE; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PACINI CORPUSCLE; PATELLA TENDON; RABBIT; SENSORY NERVE; STAIN; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0031449152     PISSN: 00016470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17453679708999026     Document Type: Article

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