Failure strength of bioabsorbable interference screws: Effects of in vivo degradation for 12 weeks

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 228-234

  Kilicoglu, Onder ^a   Demirhan, Mehmet ^a   Akman, Senol ^b   Atalar, Ata Can ^c   Ozsoy, Serhat ^d   Ince, Umit ^e  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b SISLI ETFAL TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^c AMERICAN HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^d ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e Oruc Pathology Laboratory   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Animal; Anterior cruciate ligament surgery; Bioabsorbable implants; Bone screws; Polylactic acid

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; BIODEGRADABLE IMPLANT; BONE SCREW; CADAVER DONOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; FIXATION FAILURE; FOLLOW UP; GRANULATION TISSUE; HISTOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; KNEE; LOADING TEST; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PATELLA TENDON; SHEEP; ANIMAL; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BIOMECHANICS; EQUIPMENT; MATERIALS TESTING; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; RECYCLING; TENDON; TRANSPLANTATION; WOUND HEALING;

POLYESTER; POLYLACTIDE;

ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BONE SCREWS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; EQUIPMENT REUSE; GRANULATION TISSUE; MATERIALS TESTING; NECROSIS; POLYESTERS; SHEEP; TENDONS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0642280139     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-003-0359-6     Document Type: Article

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