The role of low intensity pulsed ultrasound therapy in the management of acute fractures: A systematic review

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1446-1452

  Griffin, Xavier L ^a   Costello, Isabel ^a   Costa, Matthew L ^a  

^a Clinical Sciences Research Institute   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fracture healing; Ultrasound; Ununited fracture

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CAST APPLICATION; CINAHL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORTICAL BONE; EMBASE; FRACTURE; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE IMMOBILIZATION; FRACTURE REDUCTION; HUMAN; LONG BONE; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; MEDLINE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PLASTER CAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SMOKING; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW;

DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 67650609186     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e318185e222     Document Type: Article

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