Dr. Cato T. Laurencin M.D.
Sports Medicine Specialist | Sports Medicine
263 Farmington Ave Orthopaedic Surgery Farmington CT, 06030Rating
5/5
About
Dr. Cato Laurencin is a Sports Medicine Family Practitioner in Farmington, CT. As a Sports Medicine Family Practitioner, Dr. Laurencin is trained to assess, diagnose, prevent, and treat sports injuries in patients of all ages, and refer those patients to further services if needed. Sports Medicine Family Practitioners must complete specialized training in order to help each patient maximize function and improve quality of life.
Education and Training
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1987
Harvard Medical School 1987
Board Certification
Orthopaedic SurgeryAmerican Board of Orthopaedic SurgeryABOS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- An in-vitro evaluation of coralline porous hydroxyapatite as a scaffold for osteoblast growth.
- Quality and fairness: achieving the paradigm. A personal perspective.
- Proliferation, morphology, and protein expression by osteoblasts cultured on poly(anhydride-co-imides).
- The arthroscopic drainage, irrigation, and débridement of late, acute total hip arthroplasty infections: average 6-year follow-up.
- Coculture system to assess biocompatibility of candidate orthopaedic materials.
- Bone tissue engineering in a rotating bioreactor using a microcarrier matrix system.
- Regional drug delivery with radiation for the treatment of Ewing's sarcoma. In vitro development of a taxol release system.
- A novel amorphous calcium phosphate polymer ceramic for bone repair: I. Synthesis
- The stenosis ratio: a new tool for the diagnosis of degenerative spinal stenosis.
- Tissue engineered microsphere-based matrices for bone repair: design and evaluation.
- Integrin expression by human osteoblasts cultured on degradable polymeric materials applicable for tissue engineered bone.
- Degradable polyphosphazene/poly(alpha-hydroxyester) blends: degradation studies.
- The sintered microsphere matrix for bone tissue engineering: in vitro osteoconductivity studies.
- Toxicity, biodegradation and elimination of polyanhydrides.
- Structural and human cellular assessment of a novel microsphere-based tissue engineered scaffold for bone repair.
Treatments
- Torn Meniscus
- Arthritis
- Osteoarthritis
- Rotator Cuff Syndrome
- Pain
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