Surgery for rotator cuff tears

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2019, Issue 12, 2019, Pages

  Karjalainen, Teemu V ^a   Jain, Nitin B ^b   Heikkinen, Juuso ^c   Johnston, Renea V ^a   Page, Cristina M ^b   Buchbinder, Rachelle ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROMIOPLASTY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; FROZEN SHOULDER; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN INTENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; ROTATOR CUFF REPAIR; ROTATOR CUFF RUPTURE; SHOULDER SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; AGED; ARTHROSCOPY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FEMALE; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); ROTATOR CUFF; ROTATOR CUFF INJURY; SHOULDER IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME; SHOULDER PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

GLUCOCORTICOID;

AGED; ARTHROSCOPY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; ROTATOR CUFF; ROTATOR CUFF INJURIES; SHOULDER IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME; SHOULDER PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85076300974     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD013502     Document Type: Review

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