Proximal biceps tendon: Injuries and management

Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy Review

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 162-169

  Friedman, Darren J ^a,b   Dunn, John C ^c   Higgins, Laurence D ^b   Warner, Jon J P ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Instability; Proximal biceps tendon; Subluxation; Subpectoral; Tenodesis; Tenotomy

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ARTHROGRAPHY; ATROPHY; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BICEPS INSTABILITY; BICEPS TENDON INJURY; BICEPS TENDONITIS; BIOMECHANICS; CELL PROLIFERATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISLOCATION; ELBOW FLEXION; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; HUMERUS HEAD; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERTUBERCULAR GROOVE TENODESIS; IONTOPHORESIS; MUSCLE DISEASE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NECROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; REST; REVIEW; ROTATOR CUFF INJURY; ROTATOR CUFF RUPTURE; SHOULDER ARTHROSCOPY; SHOULDER PAIN; SUBLUXATION; SUBPECTORAL TENDON TENODESIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYNOVECTOMY; TENDINITIS; TENDON INJURY; TENDON LESION; TENDON RUPTURE; TENDON SURGERY; TENODESIS; TENOTOMY; ARTHROSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; JOINT CAPSULE; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; JOINT INSTABILITY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHOULDER; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SUTURING METHOD;

ARTHROSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; JOINT CAPSULE; JOINT INSTABILITY; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECURRENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHOULDER; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TENDON INJURIES; TENODESIS;

EID: 54049145981     PISSN: 10628592     EISSN: 15381951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JSA.0b013e318184f549     Document Type: Review

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