MR imaging of common entrapment neuropathies at the wrist

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Clinics of North America

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 265-279

  Bordalo Rodrigues, Marcelo ^a   Amin, Parinita ^a   Rosenberg, Zehava Sadka ^a  

^a NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ARTHRALGIA; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CUBITAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELBOW; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FASCIA; FINGER; FLEXOR TENDON; HUMAN; HUMERUS; MEDIAN NERVE; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE FUNCTION; NONSURGICAL INVASIVE THERAPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; THUMB; ULNAR NERVE; WRIST; WRIST DISEASE;

CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; ULNAR NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 2542640060     PISSN: 10649689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mric.2004.02.008     Document Type: Review

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