Sclerosing polidocanol injections to treat chronic painful shoulder impingement syndrome-results of a two-centre collaborative pilot study

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1321-1326

  Alfredson, Håkan ^a   Harstad, Herlof ^b   Haugen, Simen ^b   Öhberg, Lars ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Impingementsyndrome; Sclerosing injections; Shoulder; Vascularity

Indexed keywords

MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; POLIDOCANOL; SCLEROSING AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PILOT STUDY; SHOULDER IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PILOT PROJECTS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; SCLEROSING SOLUTIONS; SHOULDER IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33751263872     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-006-0205-8     Document Type: Article

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