Scintigraphic assessment of rabbit knee joints after meniscal allograft transplantation

Arthroscopy - Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 506-510

  Rijk, Paul C ^a,c   Van Eck Smit, Berthe L F ^b   Van Noorden, Cornelis J F ^b  

^a Department of Orthopaedic Surgery   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c MEDICAL CENTER LEEUWARDEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Allograft; Articular cartilage; Meniscal transplantation; Meniscus; Rabbit; Scintigraphic changes

Indexed keywords

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FEMUR CONDYLE; KNEE MENISCUS; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; KNEE SURGERY; MENISCECTOMY; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; SCINTIGRAPHY; SPECIES COMPARISON;

EID: 0037544312     PISSN: 07498063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jars.2003.50108     Document Type: Article

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