Degradation of poly(D,L)lactide implants with or without addition of calciumphosphates in vivo

Biomaterials

Volumn 22, Issue 17, 2001, Pages 2371-2381

  Heidemann, Wolfgang ^a,e   Jeschkeit, Stephanie ^b   Ruffieux, Kurt ^c   Fischer, Jürgen Hartmut ^b   Wagner, Mathias ^b   Kruger G ^b   Wintermantel, Erich ^d   Gerlach, Klaus Louis ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c Degradable Solutions AG   (Switzerland)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e Universitatsklinik fur Mund   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calciumphosphates; Mechanical analysis; Poly(D,L)lactide

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; DEGRADATION; HISTOLOGY; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); MUSCLE;

DORSAL MUSCLES;

BIOMATERIALS;

BIOMATERIAL; CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; POLYLACTIDE; RESOMER; RESOMER R207; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIODEGRADATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ELASTICITY; IMPLANT; MECHANICS; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TISSUE REACTION;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CALCIUM PHOSPHATES; ELASTICITY; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; MALE; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYESTERS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 0034911879     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0142-9612(00)00424-5     Document Type: Article

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