Rapid diagnosis of an ulnar fracture with portable hand-held ultrasound

Military Medicine

Volumn 168, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 312-313

  Kirkpatrickt, Andrew W ^b   Brown, Ross ^e   Diebel, Lawrence N ^c   Nicolaou, Savvas ^a   Marshburn, Tom ^d   Dulchavsky, Scott A ^c,d  

^a VANCOUVER HOSPITAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^b FOOTHILLS HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; ULNA FRACTURE; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

EID: 0344406170     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/168.4.312     Document Type: Article

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