Symptoms of pain do not correlate with rotator cuff tear severity a cross-sectional study of 393 patients with a symptomatic atraumatic full-thickness rotator cuff tear

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 96, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 793-800

  Dunn, Warren R ^a   Kuhn, John E ^b   Sanders, Rosemary ^b   An, Qi ^c   Baumgarten, Keith M ^d   Bishop, Julie Y ^e   Brophy, Robert H ^f   Carey, James L ^h   Holloway, G Brian ⁱ   Jones, Grant L ^e   Ma, C Benjamin ^j   Marx, Robert G ^k   McCarty, Eric C ^l   Poddar, Sourav K ^m   Smith, Matthew V ^f   Spencer, Edwin E ⁱ   Vidal, Armando F ^m   Wolf, Brian R ⁿ   Wright, Rick W ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Sports Medicine and Shoulder Surgery Orthopedic Institute   (United States)

^e THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^h HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

ⁱ Knoxville Orthopaedic Clinic   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^k HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^m One Colorado   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMERICAN SHOULDER AND ELBOW SURGEONS SCORE; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFRASPINATUS MUSCLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROTATOR CUFF; ROTATOR CUFF RUPTURE; SHOULDER PAIN; SUPRASPINATUS MUSCLE; VERY ELDERLY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; ROTATOR CUFF; RUPTURE; SHOULDER PAIN; TENDINOPATHY; TENDON INJURIES;

EID: 84901360431     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: 15351386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.L.01304     Document Type: Article

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