Implantation sites and fiber diameters affect the rate of degradation in absorbable polydioxanone fibers

Arthroscopy - Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 68-74

  Kimura, Shoichi ^a   Yasuda, Kazunori ^a   Hara, Noriyuki ^a   Sakai, Toshihiko ^a   Mikami, Susumu ^a   Minami, Akio ^a   Tohyama, Harukazu ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBABLE SUTURE; POLYDIOXANONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FIBER; IMPLANTATION; LIGAMENT SURGERY; MATERIALS TESTING; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 0037226951     PISSN: 07498063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jars.2003.50008     Document Type: Article

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