Temperature Requirements for Altering the Morphology of Osteoarthritic and Nonarthritic Articular Cartilage: In Vitro Thermal Alteration of Articular Cartilage

American Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 688-692

  Kaplan, Lee D ^a   Ionescu, Dan ^b   Ernsthausen, John M ^b   Bradley, James P ^c   Fu, Freddie H ^a,c,e   Farkas, Daniel L ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Kaufmann Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cartilage; Chondroplasty; Radiofrequency; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; CELL CULTURE; MORPHOLOGY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE;

CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; KNEE JOINT; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE;

EID: 1942439010     PISSN: 03635465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0363546503258858     Document Type: Article

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