Transplantation of de novo scaffold-free cartilage implants into sheep knee chondral defects

American Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1555-1564

  Jubel, Axel ^a   Andermahr, Jonas ^b   Schiffer, Gereon ^b   Fischer, Jürgen ^c   Rehm, Klaus E ^b   Stoddart, Martin J ^d   Häuselmann, Hans J ^d  

^a Eduardus Krankenhaus   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d KLINIK IM PARK   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Animal model; Autologous cartilage transplantation; Cartilage defect; Chondrocyte transplantation; Periosteal flap

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARTILAGE CELL; CARTILAGE GRAFT; CARTILAGE INJURY; CARTILAGE MATRIX; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMUR CONDYLE; FIBROCARTILAGE; HYALINE CARTILAGE; KNEE; NONHUMAN; PERIOSTEUM GRAFT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAFFOLD FREE CARTILAGE IMPLANT; SCORING SYSTEM; SHEEP; TISSUE REGENERATION;

ANIMALS; CARTILAGE; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; FEMALE; GERMANY; GUIDED TISSUE REGENERATION; KNEE JOINT; SHEEP; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 47649090692     PISSN: 03635465     EISSN: 15523365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0363546508321474     Document Type: Article

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