Pullout strength of suture anchors: Effect of mechanical properties of trabecular bone

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1138-1145

  Poukalova, Mariya ^a,b   Yakacki, Christopher M ^a,c   Guldberg, Robert E ^d   Lin, Angela ^d   Saing, Minn ^e   Gillogly, Scott D ^f   Gall, Ken ^a,c,d  

^a Research and Development   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f Atlanta Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Micro CT; Microstructure; Pullout strength; Suture anchors; Synthetic bone

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICAL TESTS; BONE VOLUME FRACTION; MICRO-CT; MICROCOMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MICROSTRUCTURAL PROPERTIES; MICROSTRUCTURE-PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS; PULL-OUT STRENGTH; SAWBONE; SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES; SPECIFIC LOCATION; STRUCTURAL MODEL INDICES; SUTURE ANCHOR; SYNTHETIC BONE; TRABECULAR BONES; TRABECULAR THICKNESS;

ANCHORS; BIOMECHANICS; BONE; COMPRESSION TESTING; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MICROSTRUCTURE; MODEL STRUCTURES;

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH;

AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE PROSTHESIS; BONE VOLUME FRACTION; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CONNECTIVITY DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUMERUS; MALE; MATERIALS TESTING; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; OSSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULLOUT STRENGTH; STRUCTURAL MODEL INDEX; SUTURE ANCHOR; TRABECULAR BONE; TRABECULAR NUMBER; TRABECULAR SPACING; TRABECULAR THICKNESS; ULTRASTRUCTURE; YOUNG MODULUS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMECHANICS; BONE DENSITY; BONE SUBSTITUTES; CADAVER; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUMERUS; MALE; ROTATOR CUFF; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SUTURE ANCHORS; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77950692204     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2009.12.007     Document Type: Article

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