Soft Tissue Biology
A 38-year-old basketball player ruptures his Achilles tendon during a game. He undergoes surgical repair. During postoperative counseling, you discuss the biology of tendon healing and factors that influence recovery. He asks about expected timeline and why tendon healing is often slower than bone healing. Regarding tendon biology and healing:
Mark each as TRUE or FALSE
Tendons are composed primarily of type I collagen (85-90% of dry weight) arranged in hierarchical bu...
Tendons have relatively low vascularity compared to other tissues; blood supply comes from the muscu...
Type III collagen is the primary collagen in mature healthy tendon; tendons are hypervascular with b...
Tendon healing occurs through intrinsic (tenocyte proliferation) and extrinsic (inflammatory cell in...
Factors negatively affecting healing include diabetes, smoking, fluoroquinolone antibiotics, cortico...
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Click T (True) or F (False) for each option