Operative versus non-operative treatment of acute rupture of tendo Achillis: A prospective randomised evaluation of functional outcome

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series B

Volumn 93 B, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1071-1078

  Keating, J F ^a   Will, E M ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ACHILLES TENDON RUPTURE; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CAST APPLICATION; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; DYNAMOMETRY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLASTER CAST; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHORT MUSCULOSKELETAL FUNCTION ASSESSMENT; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TENDON SURGERY; WOUND DRESSING;

ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; ANKLE JOINT; CASTS, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RECURRENCE; RUPTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960618999     PISSN: 0301620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620X.93B8.25998     Document Type: Article

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