Total achilles tendon rupture. A review

Sports Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 79-100

  Leppilahti, Juhana ^a   Orava, Sakari ^b  

^a OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b Hospital Meditori   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANABOLIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACHILLES TENDON RUPTURE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATHLETE; BLOOD GROUP O; CHILD; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DOG; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INCIDENCE; LIFESTYLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; RECREATION; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; SPORT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENDON SUTURE;

ACHILLES TENDON; ANIMALS; ATHLETIC INJURIES; BIOMECHANICS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; RUPTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031913127     PISSN: 01121642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00007256-199825020-00002     Document Type: Review

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