Stress fractures and related disorders in foot and ankle: Plain films, scintigraphy, CT, and MR imaging

Seminars in Musculoskeletal Radiology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 210-226

  Muthukumar, Thillainayagam ^a   Butt, Sajid Hassan ^a   Cassar Pullicino, Victor N ^a  

^a ROBERT JONES AND AGNES HUNT ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ankle; Foot; Imaging; MR; Stress fracture

Indexed keywords

ANKLE INJURY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FOOT DISEASE; FOOT RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REVIEW; SCINTIGRAPHY; STRESS FRACTURE;

EID: 25444487776     PISSN: 10897860     EISSN: 1098898X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-921941     Document Type: Review

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