OBJECTIVE: To determine the thermal effects of monopolar radiofrequency energy (mRFE) on bovine articular cartilage when it was moved at different speeds and using varying application forces...
Keywords: Chondrocyte, articular cartilage, radiofrequency energy, confocal laser microscopy, thermal chondroplasty
01/2007 | Veterinary and Comparative Orthopaedics and Traumatology, SchattauerThe use of radiofrequency (RF) energy has become very popular in human and veterinary arthroscopic surgery since the late 1990s...
Keywords: arthroscopy, radiofrequency, joint capsule, articular cartilage
12/2006 | Veterinary and Comparative Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Schattauer