Clinical update MR imaging of the shoulder

Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy Review

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 40-48

  Murray, Patrick J ^a,c   Shaffer, Benjamin S ^b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Washington Orthopedics and Sports Medicine   (United States)

^c Clarkstown Orthopedics   (United States)

Author keywords

Labral pathology; Magnetic resonance arthrography; Magnetic resonance imaging; Rotator cuff pathology; Shoulder instability

Indexed keywords

ACROMIOCLAVICULAR DISLOCATION; ARTHROGRAPHY; AVULSION FRACTURE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMEROSCAPULAR PERIARTHRITIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MUSCLE INJURY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRILATERAL SPACE SYNDROME; RECURRENT SHOULDER DISLOCATION; REVIEW; ROTATOR CUFF INJURY; SHOULDER DISLOCATION; SHOULDER INJURY;

ARTHROGRAPHY; ATHLETIC INJURIES; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PECTORALIS MUSCLES; ROTATOR CUFF; SHOULDER DISLOCATION; SHOULDER JOINT; TRAUMA, NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 61849120676     PISSN: 10628592     EISSN: 15381951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JSA.0b013e31819602a6     Document Type: Review

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