What do standard radiography and clinical examination tell about the shoulder with cuff tear arthropathy?

Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Middernacht, Bart ^a   de Grave, Philip W ^a   Van Maele, Georges ^a   Favard, Luc ^b   Molé, Daniel ^c   De Wilde, Lieven ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^c Clinic for Traumatology and Orthopaedics   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPLASTY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INJURY; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROTATOR CUFF; SHOULDER; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ARTHROPLASTY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROTATOR CUFF; SHOULDER JOINT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78650764195     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1749799X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-799X-6-1     Document Type: Article

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