Injury Volume 39 Supplement 2 September 2008

5th European Symposium on Tissue Engineering: Bone Biology Congress 2008 04-06 September 2008 Stryker
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Editorial Board Page i
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An update on recent advances in bone regeneration Pages S1-S4 Panayotis N. Soucacos, Elizabeth O. Johnson and George Babis
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The diamond concept – open questions Pages S5-S8 Peter V. Giannoudis, Thomas A. Einhorn, Gerhard Schmidmaier and David Marsh
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Tissue engineering for bone defect healing: An update on a multi-component approach Pages S9-S20 Inga Drosse, Elias Volkmer, Rodolfo Capanna, Pietro De Biase, Wolf Mutschler and Matthias Schieker
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Biological considerations of mesenchymal stem cells and endothelial progenitor cells Pages S21-S32 Argiris Papathanasopoulos and Peter V. Giannoudis
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Allograft and bone morphogenetic proteins: an overview Pages S33-S36 T.J. Blokhuis and T. Lindner
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Carrier systems and application of growth factors in orthopaedics Pages S37-S43 Gerhard Schmidmaier, Philipp Schwabe, Catrin Strobel and Britt Wildemann
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Fracture vascularity and bone healing: A systematic review of the role of VEGF Pages S45-S57 N.C. Keramaris, G.M. Calori, V.S. Nikolaou, E.H. Schemitsch and P.V. Giannoudis
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Classification of non-union: Need for a new scoring system? Pages S59-S63 Giorgio Maria Calori, Mark Phillips, Sharanpal Jeetle, Lorenzo Tagliabue and P.V. Giannoudis
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OP-1 application in bone allograft integration: preliminary results in sheep experimental surgery Pages S65-S72 D. Donati, C. Di Bella, E. Lucarelli, B. Dozza, T. Frisoni, N. Nicoli Aldini and R. Giardino
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A comparison of RhBMP-7 (OP-1) and autogenous graft for metaphyseal defects after osteotomy of the distal radius Pages S73-S82 Ingri Ekrol, Carol Hajducka, Charles Court-Brown and Margaret M. McQueen
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Application of BMP-7 to tibial non-unions: A 3-year multicenter experience Pages S83-S90 Nikolaos K. Kanakaris, Giorgio M. Calori, René Verdonk, Peter Burssens, Pietro De Biase, Rodolfo Capanna, Luca Briatico Vangosa, Paolo Cherubino, Franco Baldo, Jukka Ristiniemi, George Kontakis and Peter V. Giannoudis