The mechanical or electrical induction of medullary angiogenesis: Will it improve sternal wound healing?

Texas Heart Institute Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 363-367

  Alat, Ilker ^a   Inan, Muharrem ^a   Gurses, Iclal ^a   Kekilli, Ersoy ^a   Germen, Burak ^a   Harma, Ahmet ^a   Eskin, Ahmet ^a   Aydin, Omer Murat ^a  

^a INONU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Bone regeneration; Electric stimulation therapy; Neovascularization, physiologic; Sternum blood supply; Surgical wound dehiscence prevention control; Wound healing physiology

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FIBROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISCHEMIA; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; SCINTIGRAPHY; STERNUM; TIBIA; VASCULARIZATION; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; BONE MARROW; BONE WIRES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; OSTEOTOMY; RABBITS; STERNUM; TIBIA; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 10344239920     PISSN: 07302347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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