The top 10 reasons musculoskeletal sonography is an important complementary or alternative technique to MRI

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 190, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1621-1626

  Nazarian, Levon N ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Musculoskeletal imaging; Sonography

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ACHILLES TENDINITIS; ACHILLES TENDON RUPTURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BURSITIS; CHONDROCALCINOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISLOCATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMUR TUMOR; FOREIGN BODY; GLOMUS TUMOR; HIP MALFORMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POPLITEAL CYST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOID PANNUS; SHOULDER IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME; SHOULDER PAIN; TENDON INJURY; TENOSYNOVITIS; ULNAR NERVE;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 44849112138     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.3385     Document Type: Article

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