Vascularity in a new model of atrophic nonunion

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series B

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 604-610

  Reed, A A C ^a,b   Joyner, C J ^a,b   Isefuku, S ^a,b   Brownlow, H C ^a,b   Simpson, A H R W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE ATROPHY; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; MODEL; NONHUMAN; OSTEOTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; ATROPHY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; OSTEOTOMY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIBIA; TIBIAL FRACTURES;

EID: 0038779423     PISSN: 0301620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620X.85B4.12944     Document Type: Article

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