Realtime elastography in plantar fasciitis: Comparison with ultrasonography and MRI

Current Orthopaedic Practice

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 600-608

  Kapoor, Atul ^a   Sandhu, Hardas Singh ^a   Sandhu, Parvinder Singh ^a   Kapoor, Aprajita ^a   Mahajan, Goldaa ^a   Kumar, Amit ^a  

^a Advanced Diagnostics and Institute of Imaging   (India)

Author keywords

Elastography; MRI; Plantar fasciitis; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HEEL PAIN; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLANTAR FASCIITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78651386541     PISSN: 19407041     EISSN: 19417551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BCO.0b013e3181f4a8d9     Document Type: Article

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