Skiing and Snowboarding Injuries: A Review with a Focus on Mechanism of Injury

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1113-1124

  Deady, Luke H ^a,b   Salonen, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Imaging; Mechanism of injury; Skiing; Snowboarding

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT INJURY; ARM INJURY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELBOW INJURY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HAND RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INCIDENCE; JOINT MOBILITY; KNEE INJURY; KNEE LIGAMENT INJURY; LEG FRACTURE; MALLEOLUS FRACTURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOTUMOR; REVIEW; SHOULDER INJURY; SKIING; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; SPINE INJURY; SPORT INJURY; SYNOVIAL BURSA; TALUS FRACTURE; THUMB INJURY; VALGUS KNEE; WRIST INJURY;

ATHLETIC INJURIES; ELBOW JOINT; FOREARM INJURIES; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; KNEE INJURIES; LEG INJURIES; LIGAMENTS, ARTICULAR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY; SHOULDER JOINT; SKIING; SPINAL INJURIES; THUMB; WRIST INJURIES;

EID: 78649358383     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2010.07.005     Document Type: Review

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