Effect on knee disarticulation on bone growth in immature rabbits


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Alsancak S., ERDEMLİ B. A., Korkusuz Z.

PROSTHETICS AND ORTHOTICS INTERNATIONAL, vol.21, no.3, pp.189-194, 1997 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

Abstract

This study was designed by the University of Ankara Experimental and Research Laboratory for animals in 1997. In the study an anteroposterior skin flap technique was used for 20 knee disarticulation amputations and also in 20 trans-femoral amputations on immature rabbits, in order to investigate their effects on the femoral epiphyseal growth plate. The femurs of the rabbits were observed radiographically for 8 weeks. It was observed that the femurs tended to grow at a slower rate compared to the normal contralateral femur.