Boehler's angle and the critical angle of Gissane are of limited use in diagnosing calcaneus fractures in the ED

American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 423-427

  Knight, Jason R ^a   Gross, Eric A ^a   Bradley, Gail H ^a   Bay, Curt ^a   LoVecchio, Frank ^a  

^a MARICOPA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CALCANEUS FRACTURE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTACT ANGLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIGITAL IMAGING; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; FOOT RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHYSICIAN; PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; SAMPLE SIZE;

AREA UNDER CURVE; CALCANEUS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOLOGY; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33745151093     PISSN: 07356757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2005.12.013     Document Type: Article

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