Clinical and radiological outcome of conservative vs. surgical treatment of atraumatic degenerative rotator cuff rupture: Design of a randomized controlled trial

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Lambers Heerspink, Frederik O ^a   Hoogeslag, Roy A G ^b   Diercks, Ron L ^c   Van Eerden, Pepijn J M ^c   Van Den Akker Scheek, Inge ^a   Van Raay, Jos J A M ^a  

^a MARTINI HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b Zorggroep Twente   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL; TRAMADOL;

ACROMIOPLASTY; ADULT; AGED; ARTHROPLASTY; ARTICLE; ATRAUMATIC DEGENERATIVE ROTATOR CUFF RUPTURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DEGENERATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FEMALE; FROZEN SHOULDER; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; NETHERLANDS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ROTATOR CUFF RUPTURE; TENDON SURGERY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); ROTATOR CUFF; SHOULDER IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME; STANDARD; TENDON INJURY;

AGED; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; ROTATOR CUFF; SHOULDER IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME; TENDON INJURIES;

EID: 78951495610     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-12-25     Document Type: Article

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