Tendon İyileşmesi ve Tamirinde Güncel Yaklaşımların Gözden Geçirilmesi

The treatment of tendon diseases increasing as the result of longer life expectancy and further taking place of re-creative activities in life maintains its importance in orthopedic surgery. Significant data’s have been obtained with numerous conducted studies and many developed surgical methods in this field, however the ongoing challenges and some complications are still lasting today. Therefore, a number of studies were conducted in order to obtain the ideal tendon repair method and are still conducted. For reaching the desired goal of all of these studies, to have a good knowledge about the biological and biomechanical structure of the tendon, the healing stages, and the factors aff ecting the repair mechanisms and healing has an undeniable place. In this review it has been aimed to help the researchers by reviewing the studies about tendon repair and healing in the literature.