Monarthritis of the pediatric knee joint: Differential diagnosis after a thorn injury

Arthroscopy

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 865-868

  Muschol, Matthias ^a   Drescher, Wolf ^a   Petersen, Wolf ^a   Hassenpflug, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arthroscopy; Child; Foreign body; Knee joint; Plica syndrome

Indexed keywords

EID: 5044229212     PISSN: 07498063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arthro.2004.07.009     Document Type: Article

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