Prevention of Peritendinous Adhesions Using an Electrospun DegraPol Polymer Tube: A Histological, Ultrasonographic, and Biomechanical Study in Rabbits
Figure 5
Adhesion scores determined by semiquantitative scoring on observation during tendons extractions (a) and by dynamic ultrasound (b) correlated well with the percentage of adhesions to the surrounding tissue ( and 0.79, resp.). Pairwise comparison probabilities were calculated using Fisher’s PLSD and the Bonferroni post hoc test. All values are given in Supplementary Table 1. Key: DP = DegraPol tube application; no DP = mere 4-strand suture; NT = no treatment, control; empty circles = immobilization protocol where the ankle angle of the cast was changed from 180° to 150° after 3 weeks; black circles = immobilization protocol where the ankle angle of the cast was 180° during 6 weeks (cast renewed after 3 weeks). Sample size was for 180°/180°, for 180°/150° group, and for NT group.
