Healed cuff repairs impart normal shoulder scores in those 65 years of age and older

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 468, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1521-1525

  Fehringer, Edward V ^a   Sun, Junfeng ^b   Cotton, Jonathon ^a   Carlson, Michael J ^a   Burns, Erica M ^a  

^a NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALING; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROTATOR CUFF RUPTURE; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; AGE; ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; INJURY; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; ROTATOR CUFF; RUPTURE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TENDON INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROTATOR CUFF; RUPTURE; TENDON INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 77952520346     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-009-1103-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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