Estimation of return-to-sports-time for athletes with stress fracture - An approach combining risk level of fracture site with severity based on imaging

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Volumn 13, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Dobrindt, Oliver ^a   Hoffmeyer, Birgit ^a   Ruf, Juri ^a   Seidensticker, Max ^a   Steffen, Ingo G ^a   Fischbach, Frank ^a   Zarva, Alina ^a   Wieners, Gero ^a   Ulrich, Gerhard ^a   Lohmann, Christoph H ^a   Amthauer, Holger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MAGDEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Athletes; Bone scintigraphy; Grading system; MRI; Stress fracture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW EDEMA; BONE SCINTISCANNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETURN TO SPORT TIME; SPORT; STRESS FRACTURE; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATHLETIC INJURIES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTURES, STRESS; GERMANY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT-BEARING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864501395     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-13-139     Document Type: Article

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