Operative treatment of chronic irreparable achilles tendon ruptures with large flexor hallucis longus tendon transfers

Foot and Ankle International

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1100-1110

  Rahm, Stefan ^a   Spross, Christian ^a   Gerber, Fabienne ^a   Farshad, Mazda ^a   Buck, Florian M ^a   Espinosa, Norman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Achilles tendon tear; chronic Achilles tendon disease; flexor hallucis longus transfer

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDON RUPTURE; ADULT; AGED; AMERICAN ORTHOPAEDIC FOOT AND ANKLE SOCIETY HINDFOOT SCORE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMOMETER; FEMALE; FLEXOR HALLUCIS LONGUS; FOLLOW UP; FOOT FUNCTION INDEX; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HALLUX; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT FORM 36; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; STEROID THERAPY; TENDON TRANSFER; TIBIALIS POSTERIOR MUSCLE; VICTORIAN INSTITUTE OF SPORTS ASSESSMENT ACHILLES SCORE; WOUND COMPLICATION;

ACHILLES TENDON TEAR; CHRONIC ACHILLES TENDON DISEASE; FLEXOR HALLUCIS LONGUS TRANSFER;

ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HALLUX; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RUPTURE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TENDON INJURIES; TENDON TRANSFER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84883654069     PISSN: 10711007     EISSN: 19447876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1071100713487725     Document Type: Article

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