Pectoralis Major Rupture in Elderly Patients: A Clinical Study of 13 Patients

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 413, Issue , 2003, Pages 164-169

  Beloosesky, Yichayaou ^a   Grinblat, Joseph ^a,b   Weiss, Avraham ^a   Rosenberg, Paul H ^a   Weisbort, Moshe ^a   Hendel, David ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Beit Rivka Geriatric Rehabilitation Center   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; DIPYRIDAMOLE; HEMOGLOBIN;

ABUSE; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEMATOMA; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MALE; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NURSING HOME; PAIN; PATIENT SELECTION; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TENDON RECONSTRUCTION; TENDON RUPTURE; ULTRASOUND; ECCHYMOSIS; INJURY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; RUPTURE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ECCHYMOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; PECTORALIS MUSCLES; RUPTURE; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS;

EID: 0041474951     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000076803.53006.12     Document Type: Article

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