Technical Report: Biodegradable Spacer Device for Irreparable Rotator Cuff Tears

The practice of medicine involves gauging the efficacy of current treatments, the associated complications, and the scope for improvement. Rotator cuff tears are a common problem, and, over the years, a variety of treatments have been used to help the patients. We describe a technique using a biodeg...

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Autores principales: Baig, MN, Glynn, Orna A, Kaar, Kenneth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
Materias:
Orthopedics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6314394/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30627494
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3307
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description The practice of medicine involves gauging the efficacy of current treatments, the associated complications, and the scope for improvement. Rotator cuff tears are a common problem, and, over the years, a variety of treatments have been used to help the patients. We describe a technique using a biodegradable balloon spacer device for treating massive irreparable rotator cuff tears.
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spelling pubmed-63143942019-01-09 Technical Report: Biodegradable Spacer Device for Irreparable Rotator Cuff Tears Baig, MN Glynn, Orna A Kaar, Kenneth Cureus Orthopedics The practice of medicine involves gauging the efficacy of current treatments, the associated complications, and the scope for improvement. Rotator cuff tears are a common problem, and, over the years, a variety of treatments have been used to help the patients. We describe a technique using a biodegradable balloon spacer device for treating massive irreparable rotator cuff tears. Cureus 2018-09-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6314394/ /pubmed/30627494 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3307 Text en Copyright © 2018, Baig et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Technical Report: Biodegradable Spacer Device for Irreparable Rotator Cuff Tears
title Technical Report: Biodegradable Spacer Device for Irreparable Rotator Cuff Tears
title_full Technical Report: Biodegradable Spacer Device for Irreparable Rotator Cuff Tears
title_fullStr Technical Report: Biodegradable Spacer Device for Irreparable Rotator Cuff Tears
title_full_unstemmed Technical Report: Biodegradable Spacer Device for Irreparable Rotator Cuff Tears
title_short Technical Report: Biodegradable Spacer Device for Irreparable Rotator Cuff Tears
title_sort technical report: biodegradable spacer device for irreparable rotator cuff tears
topic Orthopedics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6314394/
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