Diagnosis of occult scaphoid fracture with high-spatial-resolution sonography: A prospective blind study

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 677-681

  Fusetti, C ^a,c   Poletti, P A ^a   Pradel, P H ^a   Garavaglia, G ^a   Platon, A ^a   Della Santa, D R ^a   Bianchi, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b Fondation des Grangettes ^*  (Switzerland)

^c OSPEDALE SAN GIOVANNI   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fractures; Scaphoid; Sonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOINT EFFUSION; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; RELIABILITY; SCAPHOID FRACTURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WRIST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCAPHOID BONE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 29544437385     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000177467.79282.40     Document Type: Article

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