Stress fracture of the olecranon in an adult baseball player

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 390-393

  Nakaji, Noriyoshi ^a   Fujioka, Hiroyuki ^a   Tanaka, Juichi ^b   Sugimoto, Katsumasa ^c   Yoshiya, Shinichi ^b   Fujita, Kenji ^d   Kurosaka, Masahiro ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Meitetsu Hospital   (Japan)

^d KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elbow; Olecranon; Stress fracture; Throwing athlete

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASEBALL; CASE REPORT; CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDER; DISLOCATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; STRESS FRACTURE; ULNA FRACTURE;

ADULT; BASEBALL; CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDERS; DISLOCATIONS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURES, STRESS; HUMANS; MALE; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; ULNA FRACTURES;

EID: 33645685678     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-005-0622-0     Document Type: Article

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