Prevention of Peritendinous Adhesions Using an Electrospun DegraPol Polymer Tube: A Histological, Ultrasonographic, and Biomechanical Study in Rabbits

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Experimental design depicting number of rabbits used for the corresponding surgical and postoperative treatments. Accordingly, the three different analysis approaches are given (adhesion = determination of adhesion extent by macroscopic, dynamic ultrasound and histological analyses; biomechanics = determination of load until failure, cross-sectional area, stiffness, failure stress and elastic modulus; inflammation = determination of macrophage and lymphocyte density). Moreover, links to figure numbers of the respective results are given.