Achilles tendon: Functional anatomy and novel emerging models of imaging classification

International Orthopaedics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 715-721

  Del Buono, Angelo ^a   Chan, Otto ^b   Maffulli, Nicola ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDINITIS; ACHILLES TENDON; ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CALCANEUS; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLEUS MUSCLE;

ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; CALCANEUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; TENDON INJURIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84881597799     PISSN: 03412695     EISSN: 14325195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-012-1743-y     Document Type: Article

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