The effect of high and low pressure pulsatile lavage on soft tissue and cortical blood flow: A canine segmental humerus fracture model

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 127, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 879-884

  Di Pasquale, Dennis J ^a   Bhandari, Mohit ^a,b   Tov, Alexei ^a   Schemitsch, Emil H ^a  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Fracture; Intramedullary fixation; Lavage

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BONE BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMERUS FRACTURE; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LAVAGE; MUSCLE PERFUSION; NONHUMAN; OSTEOTOMY; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; TISSUE BLOOD FLOW;

ANIMALS; DOGS; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; HUMERAL FRACTURES; HUMERUS; IRRIGATION; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MODELS, ANIMAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OSTEOTOMY; PERIOSTEUM; PRESSURE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 35448953706     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00402-007-0417-5     Document Type: Article

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