Manufacture of porous biodegradable polymer conduits by an extrusion process for guided tissue regeneration

Biomaterials

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 1945-1955

  Widmer, Markus S ^a   Gupta, Puneet K ^a   Lu, Lichun ^a   Meszlenyi, Rudolf K ^a   Evans, Gregory R D ^b   Brandt, Keith ^b   Savel, Tom ^b   Gurlek, Ali ^b   Patrick Jr , Charles W ^b   Mikos, Antonios G ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodegradable polymer; ; Conduit; Extrusion; Guided tissue regeneration; Poly(DL lactic co glycolic acid); Poly(L lactic acid); Polymer processing; Scaffold; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ELASTIC MODULI; EXTRUSION; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POROSITY; SALTS; TISSUE; TRANSPLANTATION (SURGICAL);

BIODEGRADABLE POLYMER CONDUITS; GUIDED TISSUE REGENERATION; POLYLACTIC ACID; POLYLACTIC-CO-GLYCOLIC ACID; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

BIOPOLYMERS;

MICROSPHERE; POLYGLACTIN; POLYLACTIC ACID; POLYMER; RESIN;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOMECHANICS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FIXATION FAILURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARTICLE SIZE; PERIODONTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TISSUE REGENERATION;

EID: 18844477518     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0142-9612(98)00099-4     Document Type: Article

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