The epidemiology of acute sports-related fractures in adults

Injury

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1365-1372

  Court Brown, Charles M ^a   Wood, Alexander M ^a   Aitken, Stuart ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Fractures; Lower limb; Sports; Upper limb

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CLAVICLE FRACTURE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; FINGER FRACTURE; FRACTURE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEG FRACTURE; MALE; METACARPAL BONE FRACTURE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PELVIS FRACTURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS FRACTURE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPINE FRACTURE; SPORT INJURY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; ARM INJURIES; ATHLETIC INJURIES; BONE DENSITY; FEMALE; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEG INJURIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOTLAND; SEX DISTRIBUTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56949104139     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2008.02.004     Document Type: Article

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