Comparison of two systems for tibial external fixation in rabbits

Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 650-654

  Meffert, Rainer H ^a   Tis, John E ^b   Lounici, Smain ^a   Rogers, Jonathan S ^a   Inoue, Nozomu ^a   Chao, Edmund Y S ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; FRACTURE TREATMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEG FRACTURE; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; RABBIT; TIBIA FRACTURE;

ANIMALS; ELASTICITY; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FRACTURE FIXATION; MALE; OSTEOGENESIS, DISTRACTION; RABBITS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TIBIA;

EID: 0033452038     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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