The effect of platelet-rich plasma gel in the early phase of patellar tendon healing

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 129, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1577-1582

  Lyras, Dimitris N ^a   Kazakos, Konstantinos ^a   Verettas, Dionysios ^a   Botaitis, Sotirios ^a   Agrogiannis, George ^b   Kokka, Anna ^b   Pitiakoudis, Michail ^a   Kotzakaris, Athanasios ^c  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Patellar tendon; Platelet rich plasma; Rabbits; Tendon healing

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR BB; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CELL ACTIVATION; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PATELLA TENDON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENDON DISEASE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE RICH PLASMA; TISSUE REGENERATION; TISSUE REPAIR;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; PATELLAR LIGAMENT; PLATELET COUNT; PLATELET-RICH PLASMA; RABBITS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TENDON INJURIES; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 70349976997     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00402-009-0935-4     Document Type: Article

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