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Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Long term follow up of rotator cuff Magnetic resonance imaging changes in patients who underwent acromioplasty without repair of full thickness supraspinatus tendon tears

Abstract

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Aim: To assess the MRI pathoanatomical changes 10 years after unrepaired full thickness supraspinatus tears in a population of patients that had acromioplasty done for symptomatic impingement with a rotator cuff tear.

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Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Year dc:date.issued
2015

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Chivers, David Andrew
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  • Roche, Stephen

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eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16535
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oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/16535

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Chivers, David Andrew. Long term follow up of rotator cuff Magnetic resonance imaging changes in patients who underwent acromioplasty without repair of full thickness supraspinatus tendon tears. Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16535