Low-echoic lesions underneath the skin in subjects with spinal-cord injury

Spinal Cord

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 225-229

  Kanno, N ^a   Nakamura, T ^a,b   Yamanaka, M ^a   Kouda, K ^a   Tajima, F ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Oita Nakamura Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deep tissue injury; Inspection; Palpation; Pressure ulcer; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECUBITUS; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIDERMIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ISCHIUM; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; PALPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SACRAL SPINAL CORD; SKIN DEFECT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TISSUE INJURY;

ADULT; AGED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE ULCER; SKIN; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 62049083295     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: 14765624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sc.2008.101     Document Type: Article

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