Real-time sonoelastography of lateral epicondylitis: Comparison of findings between patients and healthy volunteers

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 193, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 180-185

  De Zordo, Tobias ^a   Lill, Stephanie R ^a   Fink, Christian ^a   Feuchtner, Gudrun M ^a   Jaschke, Werner ^a   Bellmann Weiler, Rosa ^b   Klauser, Andrea S ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Elastography; Elbow; Enthesis; Hypervascularity; Lateral epicondylitis; Overuse; Power Doppler ultrasound; Real time sonoelastography; Sonography; Tendinosis; Tennis elbow; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; ELBOW; FASCIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIGAMENT; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REAL TIME SONOELASTOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TENDON; TENNIS ELBOW; TRANSDUCER; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VOLUNTEER; COMPUTER SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TENDONS; TENNIS ELBOW; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650324889     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.08.2020     Document Type: Article

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