Therapeutic advantage in selective ligament augmentation for partial tears of the anterior cruciate ligament: Results in an animal model

American Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 365-373

  Mifune, Yutaka ^a   Ota, Shusuke ^a   Takayama, Koji ^a   Hoshino, Yuichi ^a   Matsumoto, Tomoyuki ^a   Kuroda, Ryosuke ^a   Kurosaka, Masahiro ^a   Fu, Freddie H ^a   Huard, Johnny ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

anterior cruciate ligament; augmentation; partial tear

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ANIMAL; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; INJURY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TENDON; TRANSPLANTATION; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOMECHANICS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TENDONS; WOUND HEALING;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873381682     PISSN: 03635465     EISSN: 15523365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0363546512471614     Document Type: Article

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