Plantar fasciitis: How successful is surgical intervention?

Foot and Ankle International

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 803-807

  Davies, Mark S ^b   Weiss, Galen A ^b   Saxby, Terence S ^a  

^a Arnold Janssen Centre   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FASCIITIS; HUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING;

EID: 0033381512     PISSN: 10711007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107110079902001209     Document Type: Article

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