The elbow: Radiographic imaging pearls and pitfalls

Seminars in Roentgenology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 223-247

  Grayson, David E ^a,b  

^a WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAT;

ANATOMY; ATHLETE; BONE DISEASE; BURSITIS; CHILDHOOD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMINUTED FRACTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELBOW; ELBOW DISLOCATION; ELBOW FRACTURE; ELBOW INJURY; ELBOW RADIOGRAPHY; ENTHESOPATHY; FOREARM; HEMARTHROSIS; HEMOPHILIA; HUMAN; HUMERUS; HUMERUS FRACTURE; HUMERUS SUPRACONDYLAR FRACTURE; JOINT CAPSULE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLECRANON FRACTURE; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIUS HEAD FRACTURE; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SPORT INJURY; SYNOVIUM; TENDON DISEASE; TENDON RUPTURE; ULNA FRACTURE;

EID: 20444480497     PISSN: 0037198X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ro.2005.01.013     Document Type: Article

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