How to perform ultrasound-guided injections

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 269-279

  Bruyn, George A W ^a   Schmidt, Wolfgang A ^b  

^a MEDICAL CENTER LEEUWARDEN   (Netherlands)

^b Medical Centre for Rheumatology Berlin Buch   (Germany)

Author keywords

injections; intra articular; joint; rheumatoid arthritis; ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; LIDOCAINE; TRIAMCINOLONE;

ARTHRITIS; BURSITIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DE QUERVAIN TENOSYNOVITIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; HUMAN; HYGIENE; IMAGE DISPLAY; INJECTION; MECHANICAL PROBE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; REVIEW; RHEUMATOLOGY; TENOSYNOVITIS;

ANTI-ASTHMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTICULAR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 64749116769     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2008.11.001     Document Type: Review

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