Little league elbow: Valgus overload injury in the paediatric athlete

Sports Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 1005-1015

  Klingele, Kevin E ^a,b   Kocher, Mininder S ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Children's Sports Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVULSION FRACTURE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CHILDHOOD INJURY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELBOW INJURY; HUMAN; OSTEOCHONDRITIS; REVIEW; SPORT INJURY;

ATHLETIC INJURIES; BIOMECHANICS; CHILD; CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDERS; ELBOW JOINT; HUMANS; OSTEOCHONDRITIS;

EID: 0036910387     PISSN: 01121642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00007256-200232150-00004     Document Type: Review

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