Full thickness tears: Retaining the cuff

Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy Review

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 409-419

  Osti, Leonardo ^a   Rizzello, Giacomo ^b   Panascì, Manlio ^b   Denaro, Vincenzo ^b   Maffulli, Nicola ^c  

^a HESPERIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

arthroscopy; Full thickness rotator cuff tear; repair; surgical techniques

Indexed keywords

TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ACROMIOCLAVICULAR DISLOCATION; ARM WEAKNESS; ARTHROGRAPHY; ARTHROSCOPIC DEBRIDEMENT; BODY WEIGHT; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; CERVICOBRACHIAL NEURALGIA; CHONDROLYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEBRIDEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE DURATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EXTRAVASATION; FIXATION FAILURE; GENE THERAPY; HEALING IMPAIRMENT; HEART INFARCTION; HOME REHABILITATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG DISEASE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MUSCLE DISEASE; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NERVE INJURY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECURRENT SHOULDER DISLOCATION; REVIEW; ROTATOR CUFF RUPTURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHOULDER ARTHROSCOPY; SHOULDER DISEASE; SHOULDER PAIN; SHOULDER RADIOGRAPHY; SMOKING HABIT; SURGEON; TENDON GRAFT; TENDON SUTURE; TENDON TRANSFER; TENODESIS; TENOTOMY; TRACTION THERAPY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT FAILURE;

DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; ROTATOR CUFF; TENDON INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 81855213175     PISSN: 10628592     EISSN: 15381951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JSA.0b013e31823940da     Document Type: Review

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