Considerations for the use of platelet-rich plasma in orthopedics

Sports Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1025-1036

  McCarrel, Taralyn M ^a   Mall, Nathan A ^b   Lee, Andrew S ^b   Cole, Brian J ^b   Butty, Davietta C ^b   Fortier, Lisa A ^c  

^a ROOD AND RIDDLE EQUINE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c College of Veterinary Medicine Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ANIMAL; ATHLETIC INJURIES; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONVALESCENCE; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INJURIES; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; THROMBOCYTE RICH PLASMA; WOUND HEALING;

ANALGESICS; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ATHLETIC INJURIES; CELL PROLIFERATION; HEMOSTATIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PLATELET-RICH PLASMA; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84904731258     PISSN: 01121642     EISSN: 11792035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40279-014-0195-5     Document Type: Review

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