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Mechanical environment affects allograft incorporation
J Benevenia1, M Zimmerman, J Keating
1Department of Orthopaedics, University of Medicine and Dentistry-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey 07103, USA. benejo@umdnj.edu
Journal of Biomedical Materials Research
|January 15, 2000
Abstract:
In a bilateral canine tibial model, the mechanical, radiologic, and histologic characteristics of intercalary allografts stabilized with locked intramedullary nails were compared with those of allografts fixed with compression plates. Both methods of fixation achieved healing to host bone. Tibiae that were plated had more callus with statistically greater mean torsional rigidity and strength than those treated with nails (paired t-test, p