FAILURE OF CORTISONE TO DELAY OR TO PREVENT THE HEALING OF FRACTURES IN RATS

J. ALBERT KEY, Richard T. Odell

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery · 1952 · 21 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

The administration of from two to four milligrams of cortisone daily to young adult white rats did not perceptibly delay the healing or alter the microscopic appearance of the process of repair of experimental fractures in these animals.