Single versus double-row repair of the rotator cuff

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1718-1729

  Pauly, Stephan ^a   Gerhardt, Christian ^a   Chen, Jianhai ^a   Scheibel, Markus ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Double row repair; Results; Rotator cuff tear; Single row

Indexed keywords

ARTHROSCOPY; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INJURY; ROTATOR CUFF; SUTURING METHOD; TENSILE STRENGTH;

ARTHROSCOPY; BIOMECHANICS; HUMANS; ROTATOR CUFF; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 78649939201     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-010-1245-7     Document Type: Article

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