Epidemiology of lateral and medial epicondylitis in a military population

Military Medicine

Volumn 175, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 336-339

  Wolf, Jennifer Moriatis ^a   Mountcastle, Sally ^b   Burks, Robert ^c   Sturdivant, Rodney X ^c   Owens, Brett D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY   (United States)

^d KELLER ARMY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MILITARY MEDICINE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RISK; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOLDIER; STATISTICS; TENNIS ELBOW; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RISK; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TENNIS ELBOW; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953272860     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-09-00086     Document Type: Article

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