Indications for repair of full-thickness rotator cuff tears

American Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1007-1016

  Wolf, Brian R ^a,b,d   Dunn, Warren R ^b   Wright, Rick W ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Indications; Indications for surgery; Rotator cuff; Rotator cuff repair; Shoulder

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; LIDOCAINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; STEROID;

ACROMION; AGE; ALGORITHM; ARTHROGRAPHY; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DECISION MAKING; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FULL THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; HUMAN; LIMB DISEASE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; REVIEW; ROTATOR CUFF RUPTURE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHOULDER; SYMPTOM; TISSUE REPAIR; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ROTATOR CUFF; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 34250777326     PISSN: 03635465     EISSN: 15523365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0363546506295079     Document Type: Review

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