Treatment of the symptomatic os acromiale

Techniques in Shoulder and Elbow Surgery

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 214-218

  Jehmlich, Steffen ^a   Holovacs, Thomas F ^a   Warner, Jon J P ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROMIECTOMY; ACROMION; ACROMIOPLASTY; ALGORITHM; ARM MUSCLE; ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY; ARTICLE; BONE MALFORMATION; BONE MATURATION; BONE SCREW; BURSECTOMY; DELTOID MUSCLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPEN REDUCTION; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PSEUDARTHROSIS; SHOULDER PAIN; SHOULDER RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 10144260635     PISSN: 15239896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00132589-200412000-00006     Document Type: Article

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