Arthroscopic Repair of Full-Thickness Rotator Cuff Tears: Is There Tendon Healing in Patients Aged 65 Years or Older?

Arthroscopy - Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 302-309

  Charousset, Christophe ^a   Bellaïche, Laurence ^b   Kalra, Kunal ^a   Petrover, David ^b  

^a Institut osteoarticulaire Paris Courcelles   (France)

^b Clinique Bachaumont   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTHROGRAPHY; ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; RIGIDITY; ROTATOR CUFF RUPTURE; SHOULDER; STRENGTH; TENDON; TENDON RECONSTRUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROSCOPY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; ROTATOR CUFF; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 77449117736     PISSN: 07498063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arthro.2009.08.027     Document Type: Article

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