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Ultrasound and Doppler-Guided Arthroscopic Shaving for the Treatment of Patellar Tendinopathy/Jumper’s Knee: Biological Background and Description of Method

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Treatment of chronic painful patellar tendinopathy/Jumper’s knee is known to be difficult, and surgical treatment has been shown to give unreliable and, not seldom, poor clinical results.

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Alfredson, H., Willberg, L., Öhberg, L., Forsgren, S. (2011). Ultrasound and Doppler-Guided Arthroscopic Shaving for the Treatment of Patellar Tendinopathy/Jumper’s Knee: Biological Background and Description of Method. In: Sanchis-Alfonso, V. (eds) Anterior Knee Pain and Patellar Instability. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-507-1_27

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