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Contracture
Known as:
contractures muscle
, MUSCLE CONTRACTURE
, Contractures
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Prolonged shortening of the muscle or other soft tissue around a joint, preventing movement of the joint.
National Institutes of Health
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2004
2004
Conjunctivorhinostomy With Rubber-Tipped Jones Tube
Y. Chung
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Gene Kim
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B. Sohn
Annals of Plastic Surgery
2004
Corpus ID: 25550181
One of the problems of conjunctivorhinostomy that employs the conventional Jones tube is that the end of Jones tube has to be…
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2002
2002
Maligne Hyperthermie
M. Steinfath
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F. Wappler
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J. Scholz
Der Anaesthesist
2002
Corpus ID: 28522245
1987
1987
Contractures in Cerebral Palsy
M. Hoffer
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R. Knoebel
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Robert S. Roberts
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
1987
Corpus ID: 20465790
Contractures in cerebral palsy (CP) are usually in flexion at the hips and knees, and in plantar flexion at the ankles. When…
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1985
1985
CONTRACTURES AND THEIR THERAPY
M. Bax
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J. Brown
Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology
1985
Corpus ID: 25699315
FOR 20 years there have been discussions about the r61e of therapy in managing neurological disorders of childhood. A teacher of…
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1984
1984
"Malignant" contracture of the eye socket.
Noshir H. Antia
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S. Arora
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
1984
Corpus ID: 36511793
A new method for reconstruction of "malignant" contracture of the eye socket is described using a simple procedure based on the…
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1983
1983
The contracture produced by sodium removal in the non‐pregnant rat myometrium.
T. Masahashi
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T. Tomita
Journal of Physiology
1983
Corpus ID: 13469592
1. Mechanical responses to Na removal were investigated in the circular and longitudinal muscles of the non‐pregnant rat…
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1971
1971
An In-vitro Model of Anesthetic Hypertonic Hyperpyrexia, Halothane—Caffeine-induced Muscle Contractures: Prevention of Contracture by Procainamide
George E. Strobel
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C. Bianchi
Anesthesiology
1971
Corpus ID: 21170184
Halothane in concentrations used clinically produces contracture in isolated frog sartorius muscle previously treated with…
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1963
1963
Effect of nicotine on cardiac muscle contractions and radiocalcium movement.
Winifred G. Nayler
American Journal of Physiology
1963
Corpus ID: 1310170
Nicotine, 0.01–0.1 mm, evoked a positive inotropic response and abolished the "staircase" and poststimulation potentiation in…
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Highly Cited
1957
Highly Cited
1957
Alteration of contractile response of artery strips by a potassium-free solution, cardiac glycosides and changes in stimulation frequency.
Edward Leonard
American Journal of Physiology
1957
Corpus ID: 23124380
Electrical stimulation of helically cut strips of rabbit carotid artery, mounted so as to allow development of tension…
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Review
1955
Review
1955
A CASE OF SYMMETRICAL MUSCULAR CONTRACTURES DUE TO SARCOIDOSIS
M. Warburg
Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental…
1955
Corpus ID: 35627509
Sarcoidosis of the skeletal muscles testified by muscle biopsies have been reported only 24 times in the literature. Disseminated…
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