The rotator interval: Pathology and management

Arthroscopy - Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 556-567

  Gaskill, Trevor R ^a   Braun, Sepp ^b   Millett, Peter J ^a  

^a THE STEADMAN CLINIC   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; STEROID;

ADDUCTION; ARTHROGRAPHY; ARTHROSCOPIC CORACOPLASTY; ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY; ARTICLE; BICEPS REFLECTION PULLEY TEAR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORACOID IMPINGEMENT; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DRUG DOSAGE FORM COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; ELBOW FLEXION; HUMAN; HUMEROSCAPULAR PERIARTHRITIS; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; JOINT LAXITY; LIGAMENT; LOCAL THERAPY; MUSCLE CONTRACTURE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOPEDIC MANIPULATION; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; ROTATOR CUFF; ROTATOR CUFF INJURY; ROTATOR CUFF RUPTURE; ROTATOR INTERVAL; ROTATOR INTERVAL LAXITY; SCAR FORMATION; SHOULDER DISLOCATION; SHOULDER IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME; SHOULDER INJURY; STEROID THERAPY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SYNOVITIS; TENDON RECONSTRUCTION; TENODESIS; TENOTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTHROSCOPY; BURSITIS; CONTRACTURE; FORECASTING; HISTOLOGY; INJURY; JOINT CAPSULE; JOINT INSTABILITY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SHOULDER; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTHROSCOPY; BURSITIS; CONTRACTURE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; JOINT CAPSULE; JOINT INSTABILITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ROTATOR CUFF; SHOULDER IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME; SHOULDER JOINT;

EID: 79953227333     PISSN: 07498063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arthro.2010.10.004     Document Type: Review

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