Summertime Blues: ACL Rupture, Rotator Cuff Tear, and Meniscus Tear Seem Epidemic

Arthroscopy - Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 741-742

  Lubowitz, James H ^a   Poehling, Gary G ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RUPTURE; ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; DEBRIDEMENT; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; KNEE ARTHROSCOPY; KNEE MENISCUS RUPTURE; LIGAMENT SURGERY; MENISCECTOMY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORBIDITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL INJURY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; ROTATOR CUFF INJURY; SHOULDER ARTHROSCOPY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENOTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARM INJURIES; ARTHROSCOPY; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KNEE INJURIES; LACERATIONS; MALE; MENISCI, TIBIAL; NEW MEXICO; NORTH CAROLINA; OSTEOARTHRITIS; ROTATOR CUFF; RUPTURE; SEASONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 45749155570     PISSN: 07498063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arthro.2008.05.009     Document Type: Editorial

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