Experimental studies on biophysical and biological approaches adopted for enhancement of bone-tendon insertion repair

摘要

@@ Introduction Many trauma and reconstructive surgeries involve reestablishment of a bone-tendon (B-T) junction, such as direct repair for patellar-tendon-patella or indirect B-T repair by creating a tunnel such as using a patellar graft for ACL reconstruction (Hung et al. 1993, Chan et al. 2000a,b). Direct B-T junction repair is slow due to poor regenerative capability of its insertion fibrocartilage zone (Qin et al. 1999, Leung et al. 2002, Wong et al. 2003).