Predictors of Success of Corticosteroid Injection for the Management of Rotator Cuff Disease

HSS Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 2-5

  Contreras, Fernando ^a,b   Brown, Haydée C ^a   Marx, Robert G ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

^b NONE   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

conservative treatment; corticosteroid injection; nonoperative treatment; rotator cuff disease; rotator cuff tendinopathy; shoulder pain; subacromial corticosteroid injection; subacromial impingement; subacromial injection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874106531     PISSN: 15563316     EISSN: 15563324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11420-012-9316-6     Document Type: Article

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