How Long Should We Wait to Create the Goutallier Stage 2 Fatty Infiltrations in the Rabbit Shoulder for Repairable Rotator Cuff Tear Model?
Mohamed Attia AbdouGa-Eon KimJangho KimByung-Hoon KimYang-Kyung KimSung-Eun JeongTae-Jin KimHyeng-Kyu ParkMyung-Sun KimPublished in: BioMed research international (2019)
At two and four weeks, both fat distribution in rabbit supraspinatus muscles and Goutallier grading scale mostly appeared as grade 2. Therefore, we can consider four weeks to be a suitable period for making a repairable RCT animal model for the human research, considering the early acute tissue reaction at 2 weeks after the tendon tears.