Direct tendon attachment and healing to porous tantalum: An experimental animal study

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1000-1009

  Reach, John S ^a   Dickey, Ian D ^b   Zobitz, Mark E ^b   Adams, Julie E ^b   Scully, Sean P ^c   Lewallen, David G ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TANTALUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAIT; IMPLANT; MORPHOMETRICS; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NONHUMAN; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIGIDITY; TENDON GRAFT; TENDON RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 34248207102     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/00004623-200705000-00012     Document Type: Article

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