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Comparison of bone formation ingrafted periosteum harvested from tibia and calvaria.

Microsc Res Tech

July 2006

Department of Oral and Reconstructive Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, Okayama University, Okayama City, Okayama 700-8525, and Dentistry and Oral Surgery, Taishi Hospital, Hyougo, Japan.

Periosteum covers the bone surface and displays the potential to initiate bone formation, after injury to the bone. Numerous studies have demonstrated that the periosteum plays major roles in the healing process after bone fracture. Some reports have described that in the healing of long bone fractures, the periosteum forms new bone by intramembranous and endochondral ossification.

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