Outcomes of Rotator Cuff Surgery. What Does the Evidence Tell Us?

Clinics in Sports Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 665-674

  Aleem, Alexander W ^a   Brophy, Robert H ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Mini open repair; Rotator cuff repair; Rotator cuff tear; Shoulder arthroscopy

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 12; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; COLLAGEN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ALLOGRAFT; ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY; DOUBLE ROW FIXATION TECHNIQUE; HEALING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MINI OPEN SURGERY; NONHUMAN; OPEN SURGERY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; REVIEW; ROTATOR CUFF RUPTURE; ROTATOR CUFF SURGERY; SINGLE ROW FIXATION TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOCYTE RICH PLASMA; XENOGRAFT;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ARTHROSCOPY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; ROTATOR CUFF; TENDON INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84867138526     PISSN: 02785919     EISSN: 1556228X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csm.2012.07.004     Document Type: Review

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