Treatment of painful osteoarthritis of the knee with hyaluronic acid results of a multicenter Asian study

Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand

Volumn 84, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2001, Pages

  Bunyaratavej, Narong ^a   Chan, Kaiming ^b   Subramanian, Narainswani ^c  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Hyalgan; Hyaluronic Acid; International Study of Hyaluronic Acid in OA; Osteoarthritis

Indexed keywords

HYALURONIC ACID;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAARTICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

AGED; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYALURONIC ACID; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PAIN MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0142139057     PISSN: 01252208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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