Aspiration of flexor tendon sheath ganglion guided by ultrasonography. An alternative to blind aspiration or surgery?;Die punktion des beugesehnenscheidenganglions unter ultraschallkontrolle. Eine alternative zur blinden aspiration oder operation?

Handchirurgie Mikrochirurgie Plastische Chirurgie

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 56-57

  Forster, B ^a   Forster, I ^b  

^a Praxis   (Switzerland)

^b Universitats Kinderklinik   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

aspiration; flexor tendon sheath ganglion; ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; GANGLION CYST; HAND; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; SUCTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

GANGLION CYSTS; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; SUCTION; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 67149113448     PISSN: 07221819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1038981     Document Type: Article

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