Cartilage repair in the rabbit knee: Mosaic plasty resulted in higher degree of tissue filling but affected subchondral bone more than microfracture technique

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 197-209

  Heir, Stig ^a,b,c   Årøen, Asbjørn ^b,c,d   Løken, Sverre ^c,d   Holme, Ingar ^c   Engebretsen, Lars ^c,d   Reinholt, Finn P ^b  

^a MARTINA HANSENS HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF SPORT SCIENCES   (Norway)

^d ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cartilage; Chondral defect; Filling; Knee; Microfracture; Mosaic; Rabbit; Subchondral bone; Surgery

Indexed keywords

PROTEOGLYCAN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; BONE REGENERATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; INJURY; KNEE; KNEE INJURY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT; RANDOMIZATION; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SYNOVIAL FLUID; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; BONE REGENERATION; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; KNEE INJURIES; KNEE JOINT; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PROTEOGLYCANS; RABBITS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SYNOVIAL FLUID; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84856086317     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-011-1596-8     Document Type: Article

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