4: Prolonged Tourniquet Use Following Blast Related Lower Extremity Injuries Increase Heterotopic Ossification in a Pre-clinical Model

Purpose: Traumatic heterotopic ossification (tHO) has become a signature pathology affecting wounded military personnel who have sustained blast-associated traumatic amputations during the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Heterotopic ossification is characterized by the abnormal development...

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Main Authors: Amy L. Strong, M.D., Ph.D., Benjamin Levi, M.D., John Mares, B.S., Thomas A. Davis, Ph.D., Philip J. Spreadborough, M.D., Ph.D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer 2021-07-01
Series:Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open
Online Access:http://journals.lww.com/prsgo/fulltext/10.1097/01.GOX.0000769940.64959.92