Review: Imaging of groin pain in the athlete

Skeletal Radiology

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 629-644

  Davies, Alun G ^a   Clarke, Andrew W ^a   Gilmore, J ^a   Wotherspoon, M ^a   Connell, David A ^a  

^a ROYAL NATIONAL ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adductor enthesopathy; Athletic pubalgia; Chronic groin pain; Groin injury; Osteitis pubis; Sports hernia

Indexed keywords

BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ATHLETE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BONE STRESS; CARTILAGE DEGENERATION; CHRONIC PAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CRYOTHERAPY; DENERVATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMAN; ILIOPSOAS MUSCLE; INGUINAL HERNIA; INGUINAL REGION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MASSAGE; MUSCLE INJURY; MUSCLE SPASM; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; MYOPATHY; NERVE COMPRESSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBTURATOR NERVE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OSTEITIS; OSTEOMALACIA; PELVIS FRACTURE; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRESS FRACTURE; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; ATHLETIC INJURIES; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; PAIN; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY;

ATHLETIC INJURIES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GROIN; HUMANS; PAIN;

EID: 77955554701     PISSN: 03642348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00256-009-0768-9     Document Type: Review

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