Ultrasound-guided treatments for chronic Achilles tendinopathy: An update and current status

Skeletal Radiology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 425-434

  Wijesekera, Nevin T ^a   Chew, Ne Siang ^a   Lee, Justin C ^a   Mitchell, Adam W ^a   Calder, James D ^b   Healy, Jeremiah C ^a  

^a CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b BASINGSTOKE AND NORTH HAMPSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Achilles; Injection; Sonography; Tendinopathy; Tendinosis; Treatment; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; ADRENALIN; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; APROTININ; BUPIVACAINE; CORTICOSTEROID; GLUCOCORTICOID; HEPARIN; HYDROCORTISONE ACETATE; HYPEROSMOLAR DEXTROSE; LIDOCAINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE ACETATE; PLACEBO; POLIDOCANOL; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; SCLEROSING AGENT; TRIAMCINOLONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACHILLES TENDINITIS; ACHILLES TENDON RUPTURE; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG MECHANISM; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCOAGULATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; KNEE DISEASE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MUSCLE STRETCHING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCLEROTHERAPY; TENOTOMY; WOUND HEALING;

ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ELECTROCOAGULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCLEROSING SOLUTIONS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TENDINOPATHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 77952550449     PISSN: 03642348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00256-009-0873-9     Document Type: Review

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