Focused extracorporeal shockwave therapy in Dupuytren's disease - A hypothesis

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 635-637

  Knobloch, Karsten ^a   Kuehn, Marie ^a   Vogt, Peter M ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DASH SCORE; DISEASE COURSE; DUPUYTREN CONTRACTURE; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FIBROMATOSIS; GENETIC DISORDER; GERMANY; HUMAN; MICHIGAN HAND OUTCOME QUESTIONNAIRE; PENIS ERECTION; PEYRONIE DISEASE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECURRENCE RISK; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DUPUYTREN CONTRACTURE; FIBROMA; HUMANS; LITHOTRIPSY; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PENILE INDURATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79954419548     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2011.01.018     Document Type: Article

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