Tendon structure, disease, and imaging

Muscles, Ligaments and Tendons Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 66-73

  Weinreb, Jeffrey H ^a   Sheth, Chirag ^a   Apostolakos, John ^a   McCarthy, Mary Beth ^a   Barden, Benjamin ^a   Cote, Mark P ^a   Mazzocca, Augustus D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging; Tendinopathy; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900026697     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22404554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.32098/mltj.01.2014.12     Document Type: Review

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