An international survey of hospital practice in the imaging of acute scaphoid trauma

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 187, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1453-1456

  Groves, Ashley M ^a   Kayani, Irfan ^a   Syed, Rizwan ^a   Hutton, Brian F ^a   Bearcroft, Philip P W ^b   Dixon, Adrian K ^b   Ell, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Musculoskeletal imaging; Trauma; Wrist

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ASIA; AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISABILITY; EUROPE; HUMAN; IMAGING; IMMOBILIZATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCAPHOID FRACTURE; SOUTH AMERICA; WRIST RADIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; FRACTURES, BONE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; SCAPHOID BONE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 33751226644     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.05.0686     Document Type: Review

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