Injury
Volume 41, Issue 7 , Pages 687-692, July 2010

Can low doses of simvastatin enhance fracture healing? An experimental study in rabbits☆

  • Dionysios Chissas

      Affiliations

    • 2nd Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, ‘G. Genimmatas’ General Hospital of Athens, 154 Mesogeion Ave, 115 24 Athens, Greece
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +30 6945855705; fax: +30 2107489039.
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  • George Stamatopoulos

      Affiliations

    • 2nd Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, ‘G. Genimmatas’ General Hospital of Athens, 154 Mesogeion Ave, 115 24 Athens, Greece
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  • Dionysios Verettas

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, School of Medicine, Demokritus University of Thrace, Greece
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  • Konstantinos Kazakos

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, School of Medicine, Demokritus University of Thrace, Greece
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  • Apostolos Papalois

      Affiliations

    • Experimental-Research Department, Elpen Pharmaceuticals, Athens, Greece
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  • George Agrogiannis

      Affiliations

    • 1st Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
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  • Athanasios Papaeliou

      Affiliations

    • 2nd Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, ‘G. Genimmatas’ General Hospital of Athens, 154 Mesogeion Ave, 115 24 Athens, Greece
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  • Emmanouel Agapitos

      Affiliations

    • 1st Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
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  • Alexia Balanika

      Affiliations

    • 2nd Department of Radiology, Attikon Hospital, School of Medicine, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
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  • Eleftheria Papadopoulou

      Affiliations

    • Department of Materials Science, University of Patras, Greece
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  • George Anastopoulos

      Affiliations

    • 2nd Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, ‘G. Genimmatas’ General Hospital of Athens, 154 Mesogeion Ave, 115 24 Athens, Greece
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  • Panagiotis G. Ntagiopoulos

      Affiliations

    • 2nd Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, ‘G. Genimmatas’ General Hospital of Athens, 154 Mesogeion Ave, 115 24 Athens, Greece
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  • Antonios Asimakopoulos

      Affiliations

    • 2nd Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, ‘G. Genimmatas’ General Hospital of Athens, 154 Mesogeion Ave, 115 24 Athens, Greece

Accepted 5 October 2009.

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☆ Level of Evidence II: Comparative Prospective Study.

PII: S0020-1383(09)00534-8

doi:10.1016/j.injury.2009.10.011

Injury
Volume 41, Issue 7 , Pages 687-692, July 2010

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