Risk reduction through skeletal scintigraphy as a screening tool in suspected scaphoid fracture: A literature review

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 507-509

  Chakravarty, D ^a   Sloan, J ^a   Brenchley, J ^a  

^a LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOISOTOPE;

ARM BLOOD FLOW; ASEPTIC NECROSIS; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CARPAL BONE; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST OF ILLNESS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE IMMOBILIZATION; HEMATOMA; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; LAW SUIT; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCAPHOID BONE; SCAPHOID FRACTURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNOVITIS; WRIST FRACTURE; WRIST RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036848584     PISSN: 13510622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.19.6.507     Document Type: Review

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