Achilles tendonitis: Are corticosteroid injections useful or harmful?

Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 245-250

  Shrier, Ian ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Achilles tendonitis; Complications; Corticosteroid injections; Efficacy

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; HYDROCORTISONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE;

ACHILLES TENDON; ACHILLES TENDON RUPTURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DEPIGMENTATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN ATROPHY; TENDINITIS;

EID: 0029801236     PISSN: 1050642X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042752-199610000-00007     Document Type: Article

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