Arthroscopic surgery for knee pain

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 354, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Järvinen, Teppo L N ^a   Guyatt, Gordon H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROSCOPIC PARTIAL MENISCECTOMY; ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; EXERCISE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KNEE ARTHROSCOPY; KNEE PAIN; MENISCECTOMY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MUSCLE STRENGTH; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); ARTHROSCOPY; KNEE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; SURGERY;

ARTHROSCOPY; HUMANS; KNEE; KNEE JOINT; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE;

EID: 84979582663     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.i3934     Document Type: Editorial

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