The effect of the trabecular microstructure on the pullout strength of suture anchors

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1953-1959

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

^a MedShape Solutions Inc   (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

Bone mineral density; Micro CT; Microstructure; Pullout strength; Suture anchors

Indexed keywords

BONE MINERAL DENSITY; LINEAR CORRELATION; MICRO CT; MICROCOMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MICROSTRUCTURAL PROPERTIES; P-VALUES; PREDICTIVE MODELS; PULL-OUT STRENGTH; PULLOUT EXPERIMENT; PULLOUT RESISTANCE; REGIONS OF INTEREST; STRUCTURAL MODEL INDICES; SUTURE ANCHOR; TRABECULAR BONES; TRABECULAR THICKNESS; VARIANT MODELS;

ANCHORS; BONE; MICROSTRUCTURE; MINERALS; MODEL STRUCTURES; SILICATE MINERALS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE DENSITY; BONE STRUCTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUMERUS; MALE; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRENGTH; SUTURE ANCHOR; TRABECULAR BONE;

ADULT; AGED; BONE DENSITY; HUMANS; HUMERUS; MIDDLE AGED; SUTURE ANCHORS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TENSILE STRENGTH; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77954143001     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2010.03.013     Document Type: Article

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