Porcine Tibia Is a Poor Substitute for Human Cadaver Tibia for Evaluating Interference Screw Fixation

American Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 765-771

  Nurmi, Janne T ^a,b,c   Sievänen, Harri ^d   Kannus, Pekka ^a,b,d   Järvinen, Markku ^a,b   Järvinen, Teppo L N ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d UKK INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH PROMOTION RESEARCH   (Finland)

^e TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Animal; Anterior cruciate ligament graft fixation; Biomechanical testing; Cadaver; Surrogate tissue

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAMSTRING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIBIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; BIOMECHANICS; BONE SCREWS; CADAVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SWINE; TENDONS; TIBIA; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 11144356232     PISSN: 03635465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0363546503261732     Document Type: Article

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