Ultrasonically implanted PLA suture anchors are stable in osteopenic bone

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 442, Issue , 2006, Pages 143-148

  Meyer, D C ^a   Mayer, J ^b   Weber, U ^b   Mueller, A ^b   Koch, P P ^a   Gerber, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b WW Technology AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYLACTIC ACID; TITANIUM;

ABSORBABLE PIN; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE STRENGTH; CADAVER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMPLANT; OSTEOPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SUTURE; TENSILE STRENGTH; ULTRASOUND; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIODEGRADABLE IMPLANT; BONE NAIL; HUMERUS; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL STRESS; METABOLIC BONE DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; SUTURING METHOD;

ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BONE DENSITY; BONE DISEASES, METABOLIC; BONE NAILS; CADAVER; HUMANS; HUMERUS; MATERIALS TESTING; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; SUTURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 33645080705     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000185033.32220.57     Document Type: Article

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