Supraspinatus tendon repair into a bony trough in the rabbit: Mechanical restoration and correlative imaging

Journal of Orthopaedic Research

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 710-715

  Trudel, Guy ^a   Ramachandran, Nanthan ^a   Ryan, Stephen E ^b   Rakhra, Kawan ^b   Uhthoff, Hans K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Mechanical testing; Rotator cuff; Supraspinatus; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; TENDON RECONSTRUCTION; TENSILE STRENGTH;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; RABBITS; ROTATOR CUFF; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TENSILE STRENGTH; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 77951438382     PISSN: 07360266     EISSN: 1554527X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jor.21045     Document Type: Article

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