No effects of PRP on ultrasonographic tendon structure and neovascularisation in chronic midportion Achilles tendinopathy

British Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 387-392

  De Vos, R J ^a,b   Weir, A ^b   Tol, J L ^b   Verhaar, J A N ^a   Weinans, H ^a   Van Schie, H T M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MEDICAL CENTER HAAGLANDEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDON; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPORT; TENDINITIS; THROMBOCYTE RICH PLASMA; TREATMENT FAILURE; VASCULARIZATION;

ACHILLES TENDON; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PLATELET-RICH PLASMA; SPORTS; TENDINOPATHY; TREATMENT FAILURE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952535413     PISSN: 03063674     EISSN: 14730480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjsm.2010.076398     Document Type: Article

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