Utility of sonography for the diagnosis of adductor avulsion injury ("thigh splints")

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 913-916

  Sofka, Carolyn M ^a   Marx, Robert ^a   Adler, Ronald S ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; IONIZING RADIATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT TREATMENT; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

AVULSION INJURY; CLINICAL PICTURES; SONOGRAPHY; SYNDROMES;

MUSCLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVULSION INJURY; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; FOOTBALL; HUMAN; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPORT INJURY; THIGH; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 33745686519     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2006.25.7.913     Document Type: Article

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