Acoustic stiffness and change in plug cartilage over time after autologous osteochondral grafting: correlation between ultrasound signal intensity and histological score in a rabbit model

Arthritis Research and Therapy

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Kuroki, Hiroshi ^a   Nakagawa, Yasuaki ^b   Mori, Koji ^c   Ohba, Mao ^b   Suzuki, Takashi ^b   Mizuno, Yasuyuki ^b   Ando, Keiji ^b   Takenaka, Makoto ^d   Ikeuchi, Ken ^d   Nakamura, Takashi ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

articular cartilage; high frequency ultrasound; histology; osteochondral grafting surgery

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; CARTILAGE; CHONDROCYTE; HIGH FREQUENCY ULTRASOUND; HISTOLOGY; JAPANESE WHITE (RABBIT); KNEE; MALE; RABBIT MODEL; RIGIDITY; SURGERY; THICKNESS; ULTRASOUND; ANIMAL; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; ECHOGRAPHY; HOSPITALIZATION; PATHOLOGY; PLIABILITY; RABBIT; RANDOMIZATION; TRANSPLANTATION; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PLIABILITY; RABBITS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 27744470503     PISSN: 14786354     EISSN: 14786362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/ar1219     Document Type: Article

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