A Preliminary Study of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) and Cytokine Expression Analysis (CEA) as Early Predictors for the Outcome of Tibial Non-Union Therapy

A Preliminary Study of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) and Cytokine Expression Analysis (CEA) as Early Predictors for the Outcome of Tibial Non-Union Therapy

The current study investigates if contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) or cytokine expression analysis (CEA) evaluating vascularization are capable of predicting the outcome of non-union therapy. Patients with tibial non-unions were surgically treated and participated in our follow-up program includi...

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Main Authors: Patrick Haubruck, Raban Heller, Michael C. Tanner, Volker Daniel, Gerhard Schmidmaier, Farhoud Bolourchi, Arash Moghaddam, Christian Fischer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-08-01
Series:Diagnostics
Subjects:
bone regeneration
contrast-enhanced ultrasound
non-union
revision surgery
cytokine
diagnostics
prediction
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2075-4418/8/3/55

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