Case report: Muscle adaptation by serial sarcomere addition 1 year after femoral lengthening

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 456, Issue , 2007, Pages 250-253

  Boakes, Jennette L ^a   Foran, Jared ^b   Ward, Samuel R ^b   Lieber, Richard L ^b  

^a SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BONE GROWTH; CASE REPORT; DISTRACTION OSTEOGENESIS; FEMALE; FEMUR; GROWTH DISORDER; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LASER DIFFRACTION; LEG INJURY; LEG LENGTH INEQUALITY; LEG LENGTHENING; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOMERE LENGTH; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGY; SARCOMERE; TIME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; BONE LENGTHENING; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SARCOMERES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34247491135     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000246563.58091.af     Document Type: Article

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