Concerns About the Effects of Platelet Concentrate

Arthroscopy - Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 941-942

  Vogrin, Matjaz ^a   Rozman, Primoz ^b   Haspl, Miroslav ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b BLOOD TRANSFUSION CENTRE OF SLOVENIA   (Slovenia)

^c Orthopaedic Hospital Akromion   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; THROMBOCYTE CONCENTRATE;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; LETTER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOBLAST; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; TENDON GRAFT;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ANTICOAGULANTS; ATHLETIC INJURIES; CELL DIVISION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PLATELET COUNT; PLATELET-DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 69249227511     PISSN: 07498063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arthro.2009.03.013     Document Type: Letter

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