Case report: Fatigue fracture of the proximal fibula with secondary common peroneal nerve injury

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 463, Issue , 2007, Pages 225-228

  Al Kashmiri, Ammar ^a,b,c   Delaney, J Scott ^b  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Oman)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BED REST; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMON PERONEAL NERVE INJURY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONVALESCENCE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEG PAIN; MALE; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE INJURY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PERONEUS NERVE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS FRACTURE; SYMPTOM; WEAKNESS; FIBULA; INJURY; LEG INJURY; PATHOLOGY; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; FIBULA; FRACTURES, STRESS; HUMANS; LEG INJURIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; PERONEAL NERVE; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PROTECTIVE DEVICES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 35348895222     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BLO.0b013e31806008d9     Document Type: Article

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