In-vitro comparison of the lengthening and biomechanical properties of three tendon lengthening techniques;Üç tendon uzatma tekniǧinin uzatma düzeyi ve biyomekanik özelliklerinin deneysel olarak karşılaştırması

Eklem Hastaliklari ve Cerrahisi

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 107-113

  Gideroǧlu, Kaan ^a   Toksoy, Serdar ^b   Akan, Mithat ^b   Yildirim, Serkan ^b   Sümbüloǧlu, Emin ^c   Aköz, Tayfun ^b  

^a ABANT IZZET BAYSAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b DR LUTFI KIRDAR KARTAL TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^c ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Biomechanical comparison; Lengthening properties; Tendon lengthening

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349234523     PISSN: 13058282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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