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Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie up2date 2015; 10(1): 75-87
DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1358106
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Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Physiologie der Sehnenheilung

J. Nowotny
1    UniversitätsCentrum für Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden
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P. Kasten
2   Orthopädisch Chirurgisches Centrum, Tübingen
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Sehnenverletzungen stellen in der Unfallchirurgie und Orthopädie eine häufige Ursache von Schmerzen und Funktionseinschränkungen dar. Dieser Artikel soll einen Überblick über die Anatomie, den Mechanismus der Schädigung, die Reparaturmechanismen, die Phasen der Heilung von Sehnen und die Grundlagen der Therapie geben.

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