title: [Experimental study on the effects of cage-squeezing screw on tendon-bone healing in a rabbit model].
abstract: This investigation was to study the effects of cage-squeezing screw on tendon-bone healing in rabbits. The tendons of Twenty four rabbits were severed and fixed with cage-squeezing screw or ordinary squeezing screw on its tibia, and the interface of tendon-bone was tested at the ends of 3, 6 and 12 weeks after operations, respectively. The cage-squeezing screw can accelerate bone tunel healing and strengthen the graft intension. The experiments proved that the cage-squeezing screw could help the restructuring process of the graft after the beginning of reconstruction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics, The No 148 Hospital of PLA, Zibo 255300, China. JFJ148@126.com
authors.forename: Qingxiang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Xiping
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Lu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001863:Bone Screws; D005260:Female; D007719:Knee Joint / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D010521:Periosteum / Q000637:transplantation*; D011817:Rabbits; D013710:Tendons / Q000637:transplantation*; D013977:Tibia / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D014945:Wound Healing