Rupture of the Achilles and patellar tendons

Clinics in Sports Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 761-776

  Maffulli, Nicola ^a   Wong, Jason ^b  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDON RUPTURE; ASPIRATION; BIOMECHANICS; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEMARTHROSIS; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; MUSCLE EXERCISE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATELLA TENDON; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SPLINT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENDON RUPTURE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0141619353     PISSN: 02785919     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-5919(03)00009-7     Document Type: Review

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