Experimentally gained insight - Based proposal apropos the treatment of osteonecrosis of the femoral head

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 958-965

  Boss, J H ^a   Misselevich, I ^a   Bejar, J ^a   Norman, D ^a   Zinman, C ^a   Reis, D M ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; ENOXAPARIN; OXYGEN; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN INHIBITOR;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ALCOHOLISM; ANGIOGENESIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BONE; BONE BLOOD FLOW; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE INFECTION; BONE INJURY; BONE NECROSIS; BONE REGENERATION; BONE REMODELING; BONE STRENGTH; CARTILAGE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DECOMPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MODEL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXPERIMENT; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMUR HEAD; FEMUR HEAD NECROSIS; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; FIBROBLAST; HEMATOPOIETIC TISSUE; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MACROPHAGE; MEDIATOR RELEASE; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOBLAST; OSTEOCLAST; OXYGENATION; PATHOGENESIS; PERTHES DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; REVIEW; RODENT; STEM CELL; STORAGE DISEASE; STRESS; THERMAL INJURY; TREATMENT INDICATION; WEIGHT BEARING; YOUNG MODULUS;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 2542488474     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2003.12.036     Document Type: Article

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