Predicting in vivo clinical performance of anterior cruciate ligament fixation methods from in vitro analysis: Industrial tests of fatigue life and tolerance limits are more useful than other cyclic loading parameters

American Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 666-673

  Saweeres, Emad S B ^a,b,c   Kuiper, Jan H ^a,b   Evans, Richard O ^a   Richardson, James B ^a,b   White, Stephen H ^b  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROBERT JONES AND AGNES HUNT ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c The Good Shepherd Hospital   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL); Biomechanics; Cyclic loading; Fatigue life; Graft fixation; Tolerance limits

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADABLE IMPLANT; BIOMECHANICS; BONE SCREW; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FATIGUE; IN VITRO STUDY; LIGAMENT SURGERY; MECHANICAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PATELLA TENDON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; TENDON GRAFT;

ANIMALS; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; BONE SCREWS; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MATERIALS TESTING; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SWINE; TREATMENT FAILURE; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 17844397174     PISSN: 03635465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0363546504271203     Document Type: Article

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