Elasticity of the supraspinatus tendon-muscle unit is preserved after acute tendon tearing in the rabbit

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 216, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 17-24

  Mineta, Mitsuyoshi ^a   Sano, Hirotaka ^a   Ichinose, Ryogo ^a   Saijo, Yoshifumi ^b   Itoi, Eiji ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elasticity; Scanning acoustic microscope; Supraspinatus tendon; Tendon tearing; Tissue sound speed

Indexed keywords

PARAFFIN; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE;

ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DELTOID MUSCLE; ELASTICITY; EMBEDDING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RABBIT; ROTATOR CUFF RUPTURE; TENDON RECONSTRUCTION; VELOCITY; ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL; ECHOGRAPHY; INJURY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; ROTATOR CUFF; TIME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; ELASTICITY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; RABBITS; ROTATOR CUFF; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 54049146986     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.216.17     Document Type: Article

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