The future: Optimizing the healing environment in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy Review

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 48-53

  Sánchez, Mikel ^a   Anitua, Eduardo ^b   Lopez Vidriero, Emilio ^c   Andía, Isabel ^b  

^a Unidad de Cirugía Artroscópica   (Spain)

^b BTI IMASD   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

ACL reconstruction; Arthroscopy; Healing; Knee; Platelet rich therapies; Tendon graft

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR;

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SOFT TISSUE; TENDON; THROMBOCYTE RICH PLASMA; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTHROSCOPY; HUMANS; KNEE INJURIES; PLATELET-RICH PLASMA; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 77149131541     PISSN: 10628592     EISSN: 15381951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JSA.0b013e3181c0ccd5     Document Type: Review

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