Tendon injury response: Assessment of biomechanical properties, tissue morphology and viability following flexor digitorum profundus tendon transection

Journal of Orthopaedic Research

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 990-997

  Silva, Matthew J ^a   Ritty, Timothy M ^a   Ditsios, Konstantinos ^a   Burns, Meghan E ^a   Boyer, Martin I ^a   Gelberman, Richard H ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Chemical modification; Cross linking; Extrasynovial tendon; Friction

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLAST; FLEXOR TENDON INJURY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; SUTURE; TENDON RECONSTRUCTION; THICKNESS; TISSUE STRUCTURE; WEIGHT BEARING;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; DOGS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; TENDON INJURIES; TENDONS;

EID: 4344613286     PISSN: 07360266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orthres.2004.01.004     Document Type: Article

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