Where to tenodese the biceps: Proximal or distal?

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 469, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1050-1055

  Lutton, David M ^a   Gruson, Konrad I ^a   Harrison, Alicia K ^a   Gladstone, James N ^a   Flatow, Evan L ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPRAPECTORAL TENODESIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENDON INJURY; TENODESIS; TENOSYNOVITIS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ARM; ARTHROSCOPY; ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ARM; ARTHROSCOPY; HUMANS; NEW YORK CITY; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TENDON INJURIES; TENODESIS; TENOSYNOVITIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79955836133     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-010-1691-z     Document Type: Conference Paper

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