Arthroscopic transosseous (anchorless) rotator cuff repair

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1031-1035

  Garofalo, Raffaele ^a,d   Castagna, Alessandro ^b   Borroni, Mario ^b   Krishnan, Sumant G ^c  

^a Shoulder Service Hospital F Miulli   (Italy)

^b HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^c The Carrel Clinic   (United States)

^d NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anchorless; Arthroscopic rotator cuff repair; Rotator cuff tear; Shoulder; Transosseous

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861341096     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-011-1725-4     Document Type: Article

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