Characteristics of skeletal stress fractures in female military recruits of the Israel defense forces on bone scintigraphy

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 742-749

  Hod, Nir ^a   Ashkenazi, Isaac ^b   Levi, Yeheskel ^c   Fire, Gil ^b   Drori, Moshe ^a   Cohen, Israel ^a   Bernstine, Hanna ^a   Horne, Tifha ^c,d  

^a Institute of Nuclear Medicine Medical Services and Supply Center   (Israel)

^b MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

^c Sackler Faculty of Medicine ^*  (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bone scintigraphy; Female; Military recruits; Stress fractures

Indexed keywords

MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CORTICAL BONE; FEMALE; FEMUR; FIBULA; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METATARSAL BONE; PUBIC BONE; QUALITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SACROILIAC JOINT; SOLDIER; SPLINT; STRESS FRACTURE; TARSAL BONE; TIBIA;

EID: 33751205317     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rlu.0000246632.11440.70     Document Type: Article

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