Calcific tendinopathy of the rotator cuff tendons

Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy Review

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 237-243

  Oliva, Francesco ^a   Via, Alessio Giai ^a   Maffulli, Nicola ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

calcific deposits; calcific tendinopathy; review; tendons

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CIMETIDINE; CORTICOSTEROID; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

AGING; ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY; BONE NECROSIS; CALCIFIC TENDINOPATHY; CALCIFICATION; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL DEGENERATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMORBIDITY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE COURSE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EDEMA; ERYTHEMA; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HEMATOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMEROSCAPULAR PERIARTHRITIS; HYPERTHERMIA; INCIDENCE; MESENCHYME CELL; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NEEDLE LAVAGE; NERVE LESION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOLYSIS; PAIN; PATHOGENESIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; RANGE OF MOTION; REVIEW; ROTATOR CUFF INJURY; SOFT TISSUE SWELLING; SUTURING METHOD; TENDINITIS; THYROID DISEASE; TRANSIENT BONE EDEMA; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

CALCINOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; ROTATOR CUFF; SEX FACTORS; TENDINOPATHY; TENDONS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 80051734093     PISSN: 10628592     EISSN: 15381951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JSA.0b013e318225bc5f     Document Type: Review

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