Prevalence of articular cartilage degeneration in the ankle and knee joints of human organ donors

Journal of Orthopaedic Science

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 407-412

  Koepp, Holger ^a,b   Eger, Wolfgang ^b   Muehleman, Carol ^c   Valdellon, Allan ^d   Buckwalter, Joseph A ^e   Kuettner, Klaus E ^b   Cole, Ada A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c W M Scholl Coll of Podiatric Med   (United States)

^d Regional Organ Bank of Illinois   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Ankle; Articular cartilage degeneration; Human; Knee

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JOINT DEGENERATION; KNEE; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; PREVALENCE; RATING SCALE;

EID: 0033458693     PISSN: 09492658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007760050123     Document Type: Article

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