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Calcific Tendinitis Intervention

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This chapter described the pathophysiology of calcific tendinitis and the fenestration and barbotage technique for the management of calcified tendinitis.

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  1. Madi Pain Management Center, Jeonju, Republic of Korea

    Sang Hoon Lee

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  1. Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management, Toronto Western Hopsital and Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Philip Peng

  2. Alan Edwards Pain Management Unit, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    Roderick Finlayson

  3. Madi Pain Management Center, Jeonju, Korea (Republic of)

    Sang Hoon Lee

  4. Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management, Toronto Western Hopsital and Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Anuj Bhatia

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Lee, S.H. (2020). Calcific Tendinitis Intervention. In: Peng, P., Finlayson, R., Lee, S., Bhatia, A. (eds) Ultrasound for Interventional Pain Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18371-4_26

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