Meniscus reconstruction: Today's achievements and premises for the future

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 95-109

  Liu, Chaoxu ^a,b   Toma, Ionel Cristian ^c   Mastrogiacomo, Maddalena ^d   Krettek, Christian ^a   Von Lewinski, Gabriela ^e   Jagodzinski, Michael ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c KLINIKUM ERNST VON BERGMANN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^e Annastift   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collagen; Meniscus; Prosthesis; Scaffold; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

ALIPHATIC 1,4 BUTANEDIISOCYANATE BASED POLYESTERURETHANE; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR AB; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; POLYMER; POLYURETHAN; RECOMBINANT PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; RECOMBINANT PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR AB; SCATTER FACTOR; SOMATOMEDIN C; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CARTILAGE GRAFT; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FAT PAD GRAFT; GENE; GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; KNEE MENISCUS RUPTURE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MENISCAL REPAIR; MENISCAL TRANSPLANTATION; MENISCECTOMY; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MICROENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PERICHONDRIUM GRAFT; PERIOSTEUM GRAFT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FIXATION; RABBIT; SHEEP; SYNOVIAL FLAP GRAFT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TENDON GRAFT; THROMBOCYTE RICH PLASMA; TISSUE CULTURE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE GRAFT; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1 GENE;

HUMANS; MENISCI, TIBIAL; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PLATELET-RICH PLASMA; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; REGENERATION; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; TISSUE THERAPY; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTS;

EID: 84872302960     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: 14343916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00402-012-1624-2     Document Type: Article

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