Low intensity pulsed ultrasonography for fractures: Systematic review of randomised controlled trials

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 338, Issue 7695, 2009, Pages

  Busse, Jason W ^a,b   Kaur, Jagdeep ^b   Mollon, Brent ^c   Bhandari, Mohit ^b   Third, Paul Tornetta ^d   Schünemann, Holger J ^e   Guyatt, Gordon H ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR WORK AND HEALTH   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e REGINA ELENA NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE GRAFT; CLAVICLE FRACTURE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DEVICE; DISTRACTION OSTEOGENESIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FRACTURE; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; LOW INTENSITY PULSED ULTRASONOGRAPHY; MALLEOLUS FRACTURE; MANDIBLE FRACTURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS FRACTURE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STRESS FRACTURE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TIBIA FRACTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

BONE TRANSPLANTATION; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; OSTEOGENESIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 84859008181     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.b351     Document Type: Article

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