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Increasing age and tear size reduce rotator cuff repair healing rate at 1 year
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Background and purpose
There is a need to understand the reasons why a high proportion of rotator cuff repairs fail to heal. Using data from a large randomized clinical trial, we evaluated age and tear size as risk factors for failure of rotator cuff repair.
Patients and methods
Between 2007 and 2014, 65 surgeons from 47 hospitals in the National Health Service (NHS) recruited 447 patients with atraumatic rotator cuff tendon tears to the United Kingdom Rotator Cuf...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1080/17453674.2017.1370844
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- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Journal:
- Acta Orthopaedica More from this journal
- Volume:
- 88
- Issue:
- 6
- Pages:
- 606-611
- Publication date:
- 2017-09-07
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-07-22
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1745-3682
- ISSN:
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1745-3674
- Pmid:
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28880113
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English
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pubs:726186
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uuid:c6c3fe35-4880-4b07-ac13-2996e63e921c
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pubs:726186
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726186
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2018-07-26
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- Copyright holder:
- Snelling et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Taylor and Francis on behalf of the Nordic Orthopedic Federation. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0)
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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