Injection treatment for chronic midportion Achilles tendinopathy: Do we need that many alternatives?

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 513-515

  van Sterkenburg, M N ^a   van Dijk, C N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; HEPARIN; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; POLIDOCANOL;

ACHILLES TENDON; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTRALESIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TENDINITIS; THROMBOCYTE RICH PLASMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACHILLES TENDON; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEPARIN; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PLATELET-RICH PLASMA; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TENDINOPATHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79952987134     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-011-1415-2     Document Type: Editorial

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