Little Leaguer's Elbow, medial epicondyle injury, and osteochondritis dissecans

Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy Review

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 30-39

  Hughes, Paul E ^a   Paletta Jr , George A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Elbow injury; Little League; Pediatric and adolescent; Throwing athlete

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; AVULSION INJURY; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; ELBOW INJURY; ELBOW RADIOGRAPHY; EPICONDYLITIS; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; IMMOBILIZATION; JOINT SURGERY; LIGAMENT INJURY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOCHONDRITIS DISSECANS; OSTEOCHONDROSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; TENDINITIS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 0038150482     PISSN: 10628592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00132585-200311010-00005     Document Type: Article

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