No adverse effects of early weight bearing after uncemented total hip arthroplastyA randomized study of 20 patients |
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Authors: | Henrik Bodén Per Adolphson |
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Institution: | Divisions of Orthopaedics, Karolinska Institutet at Danderyd Hospital, SE-182 88 Stockholm, Sweden |
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Abstract: | Experimental fibular defects in 16 rats were filled with an acid decalcified homogenous bone matrix (bone inductive material). Autogenous bone grafts in corresponding defects in the other legs of the same rats served as controls. After 3 months, 11 of the 16 defects filled with bone inductive material healed with bony union, but only 4 of the 16 defects treated with autogenous bone grafts had healed. The results suggest that bone inductive material can repair bone defects which are too large to be healed by autogenous bone grafts. |
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Keywords: | bone bone induction bone transplants fractures |
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