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    Soft Tissue Injuries

    Injury to soft tissue encompasses a vast array of entities due to an assortment of mechanisms. The etiology of an injury can include physical, biological, thermal, metabolic, and chemical means. A sports medic...

    Tao Lee Land ATC, James M. Lynch MD in Common Musculoskeletal Problems (2015)

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    Gene Therapy

    The musculoskeletal system is subject to a high number of injuries and chronic diseases, such as osteoarthritis (OA), cartilage defects, meniscal lesions, fractures, tendon and ligament injuries. They inflict ...

    Henning Madry M.D., Patrick Orth M.D., Jagadeesh K. Venkatesan Ph.D. in Bio-orthopaedics (2017)

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    Spine Microscopic Surgery

    Spinal injury with spinal cord injury (SCI) is serious and difficult to treat. The patients often have a poor prognosis. Its incidence is gradually increasing. Annual incidence of SCI in the developed countrie...

    Huiren Tao, Donglin Li, Haodong Lin, Chunlin Hou in Microsurgical Orthopedics (2019)

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    Tissue Engineering and Orthopedic Microsurgery

    Tissue engineering has developed rapidly since 1980s, with constant specialization and expanded scope. Now its unique advantages and technical improvements have been widely recognized and its social and econom...

    Dan **, Su Fu, Tao Wu, Lei Wang, Yongtao Zhang, Song Liu in Microsurgical Orthopedics (2019)

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    Pathological Fracture in Upper Limb

    Pathological fractures are caused by many reasons such as osteomyelitis, bone tumors, and osteoporosis. They are common in clinics; however, misdiagnosis can be often occurred especially with bone tumors. If t...

    Tao Sun, Yingze Zhang in Differential Diagnosis of Fracture (2021)