Accuracy of Ultrasound-Guided and Palpation-Guided Knee Injections By an Experienced and Less-Experienced Injector Using a Superolateral Approach: A Cadaveric Study

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Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 507-515

  Curtiss, Heather M ^a   Finnoff, Jonathan T ^a   Peck, Evan ^b   Hollman, John ^a   Muir, Jeff ^a   Smith, Jay ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF COLORECTAL SURGERY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LATEX;

AGED; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJECTION; INTRAARTICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KNEE; MALE; PALPATION; PALPATION GUIDED KNEE INJECTION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ULTRASOUND GUIDED KNEE INJECTION; WORK EXPERIENCE;

AGED; CADAVER; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTICULAR; KNEE JOINT; MALE; PALPATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 79958737563     PISSN: 19341482     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmrj.2011.02.020     Document Type: Article

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