Suture slippage in knotless suture anchors as a potential failure mechanism in rotator cuff repair

Arthroscopy - Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1622-1627

  Wieser, Karl ^a   Farshad, Mazda ^a   Vlachopoulos, Lazaros ^a   Ruffieux, Kurt ^b   Gerber, Christian ^a   Meyer, Dominik C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Degradable Solutions AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL; POLYETHERETHERKETONE; POLYLACTIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COW; KNOTLESS SUTURE ANCHOR; NONHUMAN; ROTATOR CUFF; SUTURE ANCHOR;

ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CATTLE; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATERIALS TESTING; METALS; MODELS, ANIMAL; POLYMERS; ROTATOR CUFF; SUTURE ANCHORS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 84868191734     PISSN: 07498063     EISSN: 15263231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arthro.2012.04.150     Document Type: Article

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