Current concepts review: Insertional Achilles tendinopathy

Foot and Ankle International

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 933-939

  Irwin, Todd A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ACHILLES TENDINITIS; ACHILLES TENDON; ANKLE PAIN; ANKLE RADIOGRAPHY; ARTHROSCOPIC DEBRIDEMENT; ARTICLE; AVULSION INJURY; CAST APPLICATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ECCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; HYPERTROPHY; JOINT STIFFNESS; JOINT SWELLING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; PLANTAR FASCIITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FIXATION; SCAR FORMATION; SCLEROTHERAPY; SHOULDER IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME; SKIN NECROSIS; TENDON SHEATH; TENNIS ELBOW; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WEIGHT BEARING; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; WOUND INFECTION;

ACHILLES TENDON; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; TENDINOPATHY;

EID: 77957850416     PISSN: 10711007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3113/FAI.2010.0933     Document Type: Article

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