Case report: Acute spontaneous achilles tendon rupture in a patient with giant cell arteritis

Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 326-328

  Bunch, T Jared ^a   Welsh, Gail A ^a   Miller, Dylan V ^a   Swaroop, V Santhi ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Achilles tendon; Prednisone; Ruptured tendon; Temporal arteritis; Tendonitis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; PREDNISONE;

ACHILLES TENDON RUPTURE; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROID THERAPY; TENDINITIS; TENDON RUPTURE; VASCULITIS;

ACHILLES TENDON; AGED; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; HUMANS; MALE; PREDNISOLONE; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS;

EID: 0041941588     PISSN: 00917370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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