Low-Intensity Ultrasound Stimulation in Distraction Osteogenesis in Rabbits

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 417, Issue , 2003, Pages 303-312

  Uglow, Michael G ^a,b   Peat, Rachel A ^a   Hile, Mark S ^a,c   Bilston, Lynne E ^d   Smith, Elisabeth J ^a   Little, David G ^a,e  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE MINERAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTION OSTEOGENESIS; FRACTURE HEALING; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOCLAST; OSTEOPENIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RABBIT; THICKNESS; TIBIA; TRABECULAR BONE; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0345491945     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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