Flexor tenorrhaphy tensile strength: Reduction by cyclic loading

Hand

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 113-118

  Gibbons, C E R ^b   Thompson, D ^a   Sandow, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cyclic loading; Flexor; Stiffness; Tenorrhaphy

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349231171     PISSN: 15589447     EISSN: 15589455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11552-008-9151-x     Document Type: Article

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