Computed Tomography of Suspected Scaphoid Fractures

Journal of Hand Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 61-66

  Adey, Lauren ^a   Souer, J Sebastiaan ^a   Lozano Calderon, Santiago ^a   Palmer, William ^a   Lee, Sang Gil ^a   Ring, David ^a  

^a Radiology   (United States)

Author keywords

computed tomography; diagnosis; Suspected scaphoid fracture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SCAPHOID FRACTURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; BAYES THEOREM; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; SCAPHOID BONE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIAGE;

EID: 33846110954     PISSN: 03635023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhsa.2006.10.009     Document Type: Article

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