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Sumner-Smith
Bone in Clinical Orthopedics

Sample Chapter

1. Development of bone
2. Blood supply to developing, mature, and healing bone
3. Morphology and physiology of the growth cartilage under normal and pathologic conditions
4. Biomechanics of the growth plate
5. Radiologic interpretation of bone
6. The pathology of bone infection
7. The adaption of bone architecture to mechanical function
8. Biomechanics of fracture
9. Bone healing: Histology and physiologic concepts
10. Concepts of fracture stabilization
11. Nonunion of fractures
12. The replacement of bronken, missing and diseased bone
13. Wolf's Law redefined mechanical effects on bone architecture
14. Cytokines, inflammatory mediators and matrix degrading enzymes in normal and diseased articular cartilage and bone
15. The evolving concept of indirect fracture fixation

 
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