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Tendon Implantation into Bone: An Experimental Study

J. R. JONES
J. G. SMIBERT
C. J. MCCULLOUGH
A. B. PRICE
W.C. HUTTON

From Northwick Park Hospital and Clinical Research Centre, Harrow

We report the results of an experimental study to investigate the mechanical properties and histological structure of the tendon-bone junction following surgical implantation of tendon into bone in the rabbit.

The results following tendon transfer and tendon grafting were compared.

The normal four-zone tendon junction was not reproduced histologically, in either group, After 20 weeks, the mechanical strength of the tendon transfers had reached 60% of the controls and that of the tendon grafts 20% of the controls.

Microangiography demonstrated that these differences were not related to the vascularisation of the tendon bone juction. The mechanical properties of the tendon-bone junction may be dependent more on the functional state of the implanted tendon than on its structure.

Journal of Hand Surgery (British and European Volume), Vol. 12, No. 3, 306-312 (1987)
DOI: 10.1016/0266-7681(87)90179-3
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