Ipsilateral free semitendinosus tendon graft transfer for reconstruction of chronic tears of the Achilles tendon

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Maffulli, Nicola ^a   Longo, Umile Giuseppe ^b   Gougoulias, Nikolaos ^a   Denaro, Vincenzo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDON RUPTURE; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INCISION; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; SEMITENDINOUS MUSCLE; SURGICAL APPROACH; TENDON GRAFT; TENDON RECONSTRUCTION; TENDON SUTURE; TENDON TRANSFER; ACHILLES TENDON; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATHOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RUPTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACHILLES TENDON; HUMANS; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RUPTURE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TENDON TRANSFER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 47349103017     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-9-100     Document Type: Article

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