Comparison of graft healing in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction with and without a preserved remnant in rabbits

Knee

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 537-544

  Sun, Lei ^a   Wu, Bo ^a   Tian, Min ^a   Liu, Baichuan ^a   Luo, Yongzhong ^a  

^a The 88th Hospital of PLA   (China)

Author keywords

Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction; Biology; Graft healing; Remnant; Tendon

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; FIBROCARTILAGE; HISTOLOGY; MICROANGIOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; TENDON GRAFT; TENSILE STRENGTH; VASCULARIZATION;

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; BIOLOGY; GRAFT HEALING; REMNANT; TENDON;

ANIMALS; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; RABBITS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TENDONS; TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84887226840     PISSN: 09680160     EISSN: 18735800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knee.2013.09.004     Document Type: Article

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