Muscle injury: The role of imaging in prognostic assignment and monitoring of muscle repair

Seminars in Musculoskeletal Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 194-200

  Slavotinek, John P ^a,b  

^a FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; Muscle injury; Prognosis; Recurrent injury; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CONVALESCENCE; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPORT INJURY; TIME; WOUND HEALING;

ATHLETIC INJURIES; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROGNOSIS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 77952919223     PISSN: 10897860     EISSN: 1098898X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1253160     Document Type: Article

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