Microdamage at the pin-bone interface of external skeletal fixation pins after short-term cyclical loading ex-vivo

Veterinary and Comparative Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 88-92

  Cohen, K ^a   McCabe, R P ^b   Kalscheur, V L ^a   Vanderby Jr , R ^b   Markel, M D ^a   Muir, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyclical loading; External fixation pin; Microdomage

Indexed keywords

FUCHSINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE; CELL DAMAGE; CORTICAL BONE; DENSITY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; INSTRUMENTATION; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; NONHUMAN; PERIOSTEUM; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STAINING; SURFACE PROPERTY; TIBIA; TISSUE SECTION; WEIGHT BEARING;

ANIMALIA; OVIS;

EID: 0037797344     PISSN: 09320814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1632765     Document Type: Article

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