Tibial stress injury: Relationship of radiographic, nuclear medicine bone scanning, MR imaging, and CT severity grades to clinical severity and time to healing

Radiology

Volumn 263, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 811-818

  Beck, Belinda R ^a   Bergman, A Gabrielle ^b   Miner, Mark ^c   Arendt, Elizabeth A ^d   Klevansky, Alan B ^e   Matheson, Gordon O ^f   Norling, Tracey L ^a,g   Marcus, Robert ^f  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Park Nicollet Clinic ^*

^c PARK NICOLLET CLINIC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e GOLD COAST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g John Flynn Hospital   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; INJURY SEVERITY; LEG INJURY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; STRESS FRACTURE; TIBIAL STRESS INJURY;

ADULT; ATHLETIC INJURIES; FEMALE; FRACTURES, STRESS; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TIBIA; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84862490170     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.12102426     Document Type: Article

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