Fibrous cartilage of human menisci is less shock-absorbing and energy-dissipating than hyaline cartilage

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1141-1146

  Gaugler, Mario ^a   Wirz, Dieter ^a   Ronken, Sarah ^a   Hafner, Mirjam ^a,b   Göpfert, Beat ^a   Friederich, Niklaus F ^a   Elke, Reinhard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b BERN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^c Orthomerian   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fibrocartilage; Hyaline cartilage; In vitro study; Mechanical properties; Meniscus cartilage

Indexed keywords

AGED; CADAVER; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYALINE CARTILAGE; KNEE MENISCUS; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; CADAVER; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYALINE CARTILAGE; MALE; MENISCI, TIBIAL; MIDDLE AGED; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 84895417201     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-014-2926-4     Document Type: Article

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