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Heterotopic bone formation in male and female rabbits
B R Moed1, R B Resnick, A J Fakhouri
1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and the Orthopaedic Research Laboratories of the Bone & Joint Center, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Mich 48202-2689, USA.
Journal of the Southern Orthopaedic Association
|July 17, 1998
Abstract:
We performed mechanical induction of heterotopic ossification in the quadriceps of the right hind limb of six male and six female sexually mature New Zealand white rabbits of similar size. The effect of sex difference on heterotopic bone was assessed by analyzing plain radiographs of the femur. The results indicate that a male/female sex difference in heterotopic bone formation cannot be demonstrated.