Compacted cancellous bone has a spring-back effect.
A new surgical technique, compaction, has been shown to improve implant fixation. It has been speculated that the enhanced implant fixation with compaction could be due to a spring-back effect of compacted bone. However, such an effect has yet to be shown. Therefore we investigated in a canine model...
| Published in: | Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica Vol. 74; no. 5; pp. 591 - 596 |
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| Main Authors: | , , , , , |
| Format: | Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oct2003
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| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |