Meniscal screw fixation provides sufficient stability to prevent tears from gapping

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 93-99

  Dürselen, Lutz ^a   Hebisch, Alexander ^a   Wagner, Daniel ^b   Claes, Lutz E ^a   Bauer, Gerhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b Clinic for Orthopedic Surgery and Sportstraumatology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gapping; Meniscal fixation implants; Meniscal repair; Meniscal tear; Pull out force; Weight bearing

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); JOINTS (ANATOMY); PATIENT REHABILITATION;

GAPPING; MENISCAL FIXATION IMPLANTS; MENISCAL REPAIR; MENISCAL TEAR; PULL-OUT FORCE; WEIGHT BEARING;

FRACTURE FIXATION;

METHACRYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER; RESIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTHROSCOPE; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; BONE SCREW; CAMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMUR; IMPLANT; IMPLANTATION; KNEE ARTHROSCOPY; KNEE MENISCUS; KNEE MENISCUS RUPTURE; LEG MOVEMENT; LOADING TEST; MEASUREMENT; MOTION; NONHUMAN; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SWINE; TIBIA; WEIGHT BEARING;

ANIMALS; ARTHROSCOPY; BIOMECHANICS; BONE SCREWS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; JOINTS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MATERIALS TESTING; MENISCI, TIBIAL; RUPTURE; SWINE; TENSILE STRENGTH; WEIGHT-BEARING; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33845604989     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2006.07.010     Document Type: Article

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