The tension required at repair to reappose the supraspinatus tendon to bone rapidly increases after injury

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 426, Issue , 2004, Pages 258-265

  Gimbel, Jonathan A ^a   Mehta, Samir ^a   Van Kleunen, Jonathan P ^a   Williams, Gerald R ^a   Soslowsky, Louis J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ROTATOR CUFF; ROTATOR CUFF RUPTURE; SHOULDER GIRDLE; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; SUPRASPINATUS MUSCLE; TENDON; TENSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISCOELASTICITY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 4444258463     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000136831.17696.80     Document Type: Article

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