Use of platelet-rich plasma in the care of sports injuries: Our experience with ultrasound-guided injection

Blood Transfusion

Volumn 12, Issue SUPPL.1, 2014, Pages

  Bernuzzi, Gino ^a   Petraglia, Federica ^b   Pedrini, Martina Francesca ^b   Filippo, Massimo De ^c   Pogliacomi, Francesco ^a   Verdano, Michele Arcangelo ^a   Costantino, Cosimo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine Unit of Sport and Functional Rehabilitation   (Italy)

^c Department of Human Pathology and Oncology   (Italy)

Author keywords

Muscle injuries; Platelet rich plasma (PRP); Sport rehabilitation; US guided injection

Indexed keywords

THROMBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GEL; HEALING; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE INJURY; MUSCLE STRAIN; RELAPSE; SPORT INJURY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE RICH PLASMA; ULTRASOUND; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATHLETES; ATHLETIC INJURIES; BLOOD TRANSFUSION, AUTOLOGOUS; FEMALE; GELS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MYALGIA; PLATELET ACTIVATION; PLATELET-RICH PLASMA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THROMBIN; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893968419     PISSN: 17232007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2450/2013.0293-12     Document Type: Article

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