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Photographs of (A) an unaltered left tibia, (B) a tibia with a 9-mm-diameter bone tunnel in the tibial head for anchoring an SMU, (C) and a tibia from a rat with an implanted SMU show that the bone anchor of the SMU fully repaired the 9-mm surgical anchor hole and integrated into the native tissue of the tibial head. (D) A photograph of one of the repaired tibias shows incomplete healing of the bone tunnel.
