Factors affecting rotator cuff healing

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 96, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 778-788

  Mall, Nathan A ^a   Tanaka, Miho J ^a   Choi, Luke S ^a   Paletta, George A ^a  

^a St Louis Center for Cartilage Restoration and Repair   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GELATINASE B; INTERSTITIAL COLLAGENASE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARATHYROID HORMONE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ABDUCTION; ACROMIOPLASTY; AGE; ARTHROGRAPHY; ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ARTHROGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE DURATION; DYNAMOMETER; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; JOINT MOBILITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ARTHROGRAPHY; MEAN STRENGTH RATIO; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOPOROSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RANGE OF MOTION; REVIEW; ROTATOR CUFF RUPTURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHOULDER SURGERY; SMOKING; SUTURE ANCHOR; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); THROMBOCYTE RICH PLASMA; TISSUE REPAIR;

AGE FACTORS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ARTHROSCOPY; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; HUMANS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PLATELET-RICH PLASMA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; ROTATOR CUFF; RUPTURE; SMOKING; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; SUTURES; TENDONS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84900309664     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: 15351386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.M.00583     Document Type: Review

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