Current Treatment of Trigger Digits in Patients With Diabetes Mellitus

Journal of Hand Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 980-981

  Baumgarten, Keith M ^a  

^a Orthopedic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; PLACEBO; STEROID;

ARTICLE; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG EFFICACY; FLEXR TENDON RUPTURE; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HAND SURGERY; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INJECTION SITE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT ATROPHY; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT DISORDER; TENDON RUPTURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TRIGGER FINGER;

DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FINGERS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTICULAR; TENOSYNOVITIS;

EID: 47649111808     PISSN: 03635023     EISSN: 15316564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhsa.2008.04.029     Document Type: Article

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