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Humeral Epicondylopathia (HEP), Lateral and Medial Humeral Epicondylitis

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Radiotherapy for Non-Malignant Disorders

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Humeral epicondylopathy (HEP) is a painful ensopathy or tendinitis of the elbow joint that is similar to the tendinopathies observed in the shoulder (rotator cuff syndrome, RCS; see Chap. 14) and the heel (heel spur syndrome, HSS; see Chap. 16). In these disorders usually the tendon insertion zones, sometimes also affecting the neighboring bursae and peritendineum of tendon(s), are involved in a chronic inflammatory process that induces a local and proximally or distally referred pain. Usually this results in impaired joint function with physical consequences for private, professional and sports activities [17, 28, 30]. Besides physical, physiotherapeutic and medical treatments, the use of low-dose radiotherapy (RT) may play an important role affecting the chronic refractory inflammatory process, especially when other treatments have been ineffective.

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Seegenschmiedt, M.H., Guntrum, F., Krahl, H. (2008). Humeral Epicondylopathia (HEP), Lateral and Medial Humeral Epicondylitis. In: Seegenschmiedt, M.H., Makoski, HB., Trott, KR., Brady, L.W. (eds) Radiotherapy for Non-Malignant Disorders. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68943-0_15

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