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Editor’s Spotlight/Take 5: Adipose-derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Are Phenotypically Superior for Regeneration in the Setting of Osteonecrosis of the Femoral Head

Author: Seth S. Leopold, MD

Published in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® | Issue 10/2015

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Some treatments carry so much intuitive appeal that we cannot help but feel cheated when they do not work. No doubt every reader of this has, at one time or another, been drawn to an intervention that seems like it should have been a bigger hit than it was. Perhaps—even worse—the intervention should have been a winner but instead harmed patients. Using critical reading skills and adopting new treatments only when high-quality research supports the concepts behind them can keep us from betting on too many of these wrong horses. …

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Title: Editor’s Spotlight/Take 5: Adipose-derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Are Phenotypically Superior for Regeneration in the Setting of Osteonecrosis of the Femoral Head
Author: Seth S. Leopold, MD
Publication date: 01-10-2015
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® / Issue 10/2015
Print ISSN: 0009-921X
Electronic ISSN: 1528-1132
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11999-015-4449-9

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Editor’s Spotlight/Take 5: Adipose-derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Are Phenotypically Superior for Regeneration in the Setting of Osteonecrosis of the Femoral Head

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