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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2008 Mar 4;16(9):1067–1073. doi: 10.1016/j.joca.2008.01.009

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4

Light micrographs of cross-sectioned sutures (S) 2–3 hours after surgery (A, C) and 3 weeks later (B, D). Fissures that developed in the walls of the suture channels [see arrows in (C) and (D)] propagated with time, and at the 3-week juncture, they were filled with a primitive type of avascular scar tissue (D). c = chondrocytes. Bar = 100 µm.