The incidence of scaphoid fracture in a military population

Injury

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1316-1319

  Wolf, Jennifer Moriatis ^a   Dawson, Laura ^b   Mountcastle, Sally B ^b   Owens, Brett D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b WILLIAM BEAUMONT ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Age related; Carpal; Epidemiology; Fracture; Gender; Incidence; Military; Population; Race; Regression analysis; Scaphoid

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARMY; ARTICLE; ETHNICITY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; GENDER; GROUPS BY AGE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAPHOID FRACTURE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; DATABASES AS TOPIC; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; SCAPHOID BONE; UNITED STATES; WRIST INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449534809     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2009.03.045     Document Type: Article

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