1. Therapeutic Advantage in Selective Ligament Augmentation for Partial Tears of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament: Results in an Animal Model.
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Mifune, Yutaka, Ota, Shusuke, Takayama, Koji, Hoshino, Yuichi, Matsumoto, Tomoyuki, Kuroda, Ryosuke, Kurosaka, Masahiro, Fu, Freddie H., and Huard, Johnny
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TENDON transplantation ,TENDON physiology ,ANTERIOR cruciate ligament ,LIGAMENT surgery ,ANALYSIS of variance ,ANIMAL experimentation ,AUTOGRAFTS ,BIOMECHANICS ,BIOPHYSICS ,COLLAGEN ,COMPARATIVE studies ,IMMUNOCHEMISTRY ,IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY ,RESEARCH methodology ,NEOVASCULARIZATION ,PROPRIOCEPTION ,RATS ,RESEARCH funding ,STAINS & staining (Microscopy) ,STATISTICS ,DATA analysis ,STATISTICAL significance ,PHYSIOLOGIC strain ,DATA analysis software ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,TENSILE strength - Abstract
The article reports a study which was conducted to determine whether selected anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) procedures for partial tears that can accelerate the healing process of the grafted tendon in an animal model. The findings showed that selected ACL augmentation promotes tendon graft healing. This in turn appears to result in further mechanical strength of the bone-tendon-bone complex and may represent a potentially desirable surgical alternative to treat partial tear ACL injuries.
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- 2013
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