Shoulder Rotator Cuff Responses to Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy: Morphological and Immunohistochemical Analysis

Shoulder and Elbow

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 163-168

  BrañEs, Julian ^a   Contreras, Hector R ^a   Cabello, Pablo ^a   Antonic, Vlado ^b   Guiloff, Leonardo J ^b   Brañes, Manuel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b Plataforma Industrial de Sines Lote Industrial I   (Chile)

Author keywords

Extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT); morphological studies; neo lymph angiogenesis; neovascularization; shoulder rotator cuff

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930341921     PISSN: 17585732     EISSN: 17585740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-5740.2012.00178.x     Document Type: Article

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