Anterior knee pain in the young athlete: Diagnosis and treatment

Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy Review

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 27-33

  Kodali, Pradeep ^a   Islam, Andrew ^b   Andrish, Jack ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Tristate Orthopaedic Treatment Center   (United States)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

BONE INFECTION; BONE MALFORMATION; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE TUMOR; HUMAN; KNEE PAIN; OSGOOD SCHLATTER DISEASE; OSTEOCHONDRITIS DISSECANS; OSTEOSYNCHONDROSES; PATELLAR PERITENDINITIS; PATELLOFEMORAL PAIN SYNDROME; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; REVIEW; SHOULDER IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME; SINDING LARSEN JOHANNSEN DISEASE; SLIPPED CAPITAL FEMORAL EPIPHYSIS; TENDINITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS; ATHLETES; ATHLETIC INJURIES; BONE NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPIPHYSES, SLIPPED; HIP; HUMANS; JOINT DISEASES; KNEE; KNEE INJURIES; KNEE JOINT; OSTEOCHONDRITIS DISSECANS; OSTEOCHONDROSIS; PAIN; PATELLA; PATELLAR DISLOCATION; SPORTS; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE; TENDINOPATHY;

EID: 79951596539     PISSN: 10628592     EISSN: 15381951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JSA.0b013e3182045aa1     Document Type: Review

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