Sports-Related Injuries of the Elbow: An Approach to MRI Interpretation

Clinics in Sports Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 387-408

  Tuite, Michael J ^a,b   Kijowski, Richard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; BICEPS BRACHII TENDON; BICEPS TENDON INJURY; BONE LESION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELBOW DISEASE; ELBOW FRACTURE; ELBOW INJURY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LATERAL COLLATERAL LIGAMENT; LATERAL COLLATERAL LIGAMENT TEAR; LIGAMENT; LIGAMENT DISEASE; LIGAMENT RUPTURE; MEDIAL EPICONDYLITIS; NERVE COMPRESSION; NEUROPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOPHYTE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SPORT INJURY; TENDON; TENDON INJURY; TENNIS ELBOW; TRICEPS TENDON INJURY; ULNA COLLATERAL LIGAMENT; ULNAR COLLATERAL LIGAMENT TEAR;

ARTHROGRAPHY; ATHLETIC INJURIES; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; ELBOW; ELBOW JOINT; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; JOINT DISEASES; LIGAMENTS, ARTICULAR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOCHONDRITIS; TENDON INJURIES; TRAUMA, NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 33745186899     PISSN: 02785919     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csm.2006.02.002     Document Type: Review

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