Repair of microdamage in osteonal cortical bone adjacent to bone screw.

Up to date, little is known about the repair mode of microdamage in osteonal cortical bone resulting from bone screw implantation. In this study, self-tapping titanium cortical bone screws were inserted into the tibial diaphyses of 24 adult male rabbits. The animals were sacrificed at 1 day, 2 weeks...

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Main Authors: Lei Wang, Tingjun Ye, Lianfu Deng, Jin Shao, Jin Qi, Qi Zhou, Li Wei, Shijing Qiu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3930719?pdf=render