Ligament grafts become more susceptible to creep within days after surgery: Evidence for early enzymatic degradation of a ligament graft in a rabbit model

Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 568-574

  Boorman, Richard S ^a   Thornton, Gail M ^a   Shrive, Nigel G ^a   Frank, Cyril B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYMATIC DEGRADATION; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; LIGAMENT SURGERY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RABBIT;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; COLLAGENASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; LIGAMENTS, ARTICULAR; MEDIAL COLLATERAL LIGAMENT, KNEE; MOVEMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RABBITS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0036775576     PISSN: 00016470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/000164702321022866     Document Type: Article

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