The compartments of the foot: A 3-Tesla magnetic resonance imaging study with clinical correlates for needle pressure testing

Foot and Ankle International

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 584-594

  Reach Jr , John S ^a,b   Amrami, Kimberly K ^a,b   Felmlee, Joel P ^a,b   Stanley, David W ^a,b   Alcorn, J Michael ^a,b   Turner, Norman S ^a,b  

^a Yale University School of Medicine ^*

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

3 Tesla MRI; Anatomy; Compartment syndrome; Compartments; Foot; Needle depth

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NEEDLE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

COMPARTMENT SYNDROMES; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; NEEDLES; PRESSURE;

EID: 34248214198     PISSN: 10711007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3113/FAI.2007.0584     Document Type: Article

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