Imaging modalities for identifying the origin of regional musculoskeletal pain

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 17-32

  Grassi, Walter ^a   Filippucci, Emilio ^a   Carotti, Marina ^a   Salaffi, Fausto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computer tomography; Conventional X ray; Magnetic resonance; Regional musculoskeletal pain; Scintigraphy; Thermography; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRITIS; BONE DISEASE; BONE PAIN; BURSITIS; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; MYALGIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SCINTIGRAPHY; TENDON DISEASE; THERMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION; BONE SCINTISCANNING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; OSTEOARTHROPATHY; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOLOGY; SPONDYLOARTHROPATHY;

EID: 0037240132     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1521-6942(02)00099-2     Document Type: Review

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