Tissue engineering of tendons and ligaments

Scaffolding in Tissue Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 385-412

  Guo, Changming ^a   Spector, Myron ^b  

^a SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

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