ACL Graft Healing and Biologics

Clinics in Sports Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 93-109

  Muller, Bart ^a,b   Bowman, Karl F ^a   Bedi, Asheesh ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

ACL reconstruction; Allograft; Autograft; Cytokine; Tendon bone healing

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; SOMATOMEDIN C; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; VASCULOTROPIN;

ALLOGRAFT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT INJURY; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; AUTOGRAFT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; GRAFT FAILURE; HEALING; HUMAN; LIGAMENTIZATION; NONHUMAN; ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENDON BONE HEALING;

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; BONE-PATELLAR TENDON-BONE GRAFT; CYTOKINES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; KNEE INJURIES; TENDONS; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84869838968     PISSN: 02785919     EISSN: 1556228X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csm.2012.08.010     Document Type: Review

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