Healing compared between bone to tendon and cartilage to tendon in a partial inferior patellectomy model in rabbits

Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 62-69

  Lu, Hongbin ^a,b   Qin, Ling ^a   Lee, Kwongman ^a   Wong, Wannar ^a   Chan, Kaiming ^a   Leung, Kwoksui ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bone to tendon; Cartilage to tendon; Healing; Partial inferior patellectomy; Patella patellar tendon complex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE; CARTILAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALING; HISTOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PATELLA TENDON; PATELLECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; CARTILAGE; HONG KONG; MODELS, ANIMAL; PATELLAR LIGAMENT; RABBITS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 38049145997     PISSN: 1050642X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JSM.0b013e31815c24ba     Document Type: Article

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