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Tendinitis
Investigators at Istanbul University, Medical Department have published new data on tendinitis
July 28th, 2009
According to recent research from Istanbul, Turkey, "The purpose of this study was to evaluate the surgical outcome of arthroscopic removal of intraosseous deposits in calcifying tendinitis of the rotator cuff. We studied the results of arthroscopic treatment in 30 shoulders in 28 patients with calcifying tendinitis (mean age, 48.3 years; age range, 26 to 83 years), with a mean follow-up of 38 months." "According to the localization of calcification, the patients were divided into 2 groups: those with pure tendinous/soft-tissue involvement (n = 25) (group I) and those with tendinous/soft-tissue and osseous involvement (n = 5) (group II). After routine tendon...
Source: Life Science Weekly (2009-07-28)
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