High-frequency ultrasonographic examination of the finger pulley system

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1333-1339

  Boutry, Nathalie ^a,b   Titécat, Marie ^a   Demondion, Xavier ^a,b   Glaude, Eddy ^a   Fontaine, Christian ^a   Cotten, Anne ^a  

^a LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Groupement des Echographistes de l'Appareil Locomoteur   (France)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Extremities; Fingers and toes; Hand; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; CADAVERIC EXPERIMENTS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; TRANSDUCERS; VISUALIZATION;

ANATOMIC SECTIONS; ANATOMY; CRUCIFORM PULLEYS; EXTREMITIES; FINGER PULLEY SYSTEM; FINGERS AND TOES; HAND; HIGH-FREQUENCY ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CADAVER; DISSECTION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINGER; FLEXOR TENDON; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PHOTOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGIST; TRANSDUCER; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 25844440562     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2005.24.10.1333     Document Type: Article

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