The evaluation and comparison of healing properties of plaster of Paris, autogenous cancellous bone, a mixture of plaster of Paris and autogenous cancellous bone, and periosteum in surgically created defects in the adult canine femur : a thesis /

Four 1/4 inch evenly spaced circular defects were created bilaterally in the lateral femoral diaphysis of 12 clinically normal adult dogs. These defects were left unfilled, or were filled with one of the following, chosen at random: (1) plaster of Paris, (2) mixture plaster of Paris and cancellous...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Elkins, Artist Derrell, 1946-
Format: Thesis Book
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified], [Texas A&M University], [College Station, TX] : [1982]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The osseous healing process
  • History of materials used for clinical intervention
  • Plaster of Paris
  • Animals
  • Anesthesia and surgical preparation
  • Test material
  • Operative procedure
  • Postoperative procedure
  • Sacrificing procedure and histological preparation
  • Surgical and clinical evaluation
  • Clinical pathology
  • Gross pathology
  • Radiographic evaluation
  • Histological evaluation