Accuracy of the biceps tendon sheath injection: Ultrasound-guided or unguided injection? A randomized controlled trial

Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1069-1073

  Hashiuchi, Tomohisa ^a   Sakurai, Goro ^a   Morimoto, Mitsutoshi ^a   Komei, Tatsuya ^a   Takakura, Yoshinori ^a   Tanaka, Yasuhito ^b  

^a Department of Orthopaedic Surgery   (Japan)

^b NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Biceps tendon sheath; Injection; Level II; Randomized Controlled Trial; Treatment Study; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

MEGLUMINE DIATRIZOATE;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJECTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHOULDER PAIN; TENDINITIS; TENDON SHEATH; TENOSYNOVITIS; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTICULAR; LIDOCAINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SHOULDER JOINT; TENDINOPATHY; TENDONS; TENOSYNOVITIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 80053051633     PISSN: 10582746     EISSN: 15326500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jse.2011.04.004     Document Type: Article

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