Six weeks of continuous joint distraction appears sufficient for clinical benefit and cartilaginous tissue repair in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis

Knee

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 785-791

  van der Woude, J A D ^a,b   van Heerwaarden, R J ^a   Spruijt, S ^a   Eckstein, F ^c,d   Maschek, S ^c,d   van Roermund, P M ^b   Custers, R J H ^b   van Spil, W E ^b   Mastbergen, S C ^b   Lafeber, F P J G ^b  

^a Limb Deformity and Knee Reconstruction Unit   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^d Chondrometrics GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cartilaginous tissue repair; Joint distraction; Knee; Osteoarthritis; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARTILAGINOUS TISSUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNEE JOINT DISTRACTION; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; KNEE SURGERY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE REPAIR; TREATMENT DURATION; WESTERN ONTARIO AND MCMASTER UNIVERSITIES OSTEOARTHRITIS INDEX; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISTRACTION OSTEOGENESIS; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; KNEE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PROCEDURES; TRACTION THERAPY; WOUND HEALING;

CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; COHORT STUDIES; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; OSTEOGENESIS, DISTRACTION; TRACTION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84969872364     PISSN: 09680160     EISSN: 18735800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knee.2016.05.001     Document Type: Article

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