Acute Knee Injuries in Skeletally Immature Athletes

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 319-345

  Siow, Hua Ming ^a,b   Cameron, Danielle B ^a   Ganley, Theodore J ^a,c  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b KK WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT INJURY; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CAST APPLICATION; FEMUR FRACTURE; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; KNEE ARTHROSCOPY; KNEE INJURY; KNEE LIGAMENT INJURY; KNEE MENISCUS RUPTURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATELLA DISLOCATION; PATELLA FRACTURE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIBIAL EMINENCE FRACTURE; TIBIA FRACTURE; TIBIAL TUBEROSITY FRACTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ATHLETIC INJURIES; CHILD; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMANS; KNEE; KNEE INJURIES; LIGAMENTS, ARTICULAR; MALE;

EID: 41449109112     PISSN: 10479651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmr.2007.11.005     Document Type: Review

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