Diagnostic accuracy of the physical examination and imaging tests for osteomyelitis underlying diabetic foot ulcers: Meta-analysis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 519-527

  Dinh, Marie T ^a   Abad, Cybele L ^a   Safdar, Nasia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDIUM 111; RADIOISOTOPE; TECHNETIUM 99 PHOSPHATE;

3 PHASE BONE SCINTIGRAPHY; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIABETIC FOOT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE SCAN; META ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOMYELITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ULCER MEASUREMENT;

DIABETIC FOOT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; INDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; LEUKOCYTES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; OSTEOMYELITIS; OXYQUINOLINE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 48749120229     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/590011     Document Type: Review

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