Ultrasound assessment of the elbow

Medical Ultrasonography

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 141-146

  Radunovic, Goran ^a   Vlad, Violeta ^b   Micu, Mihaela C ^c   Nestorova, Rodina ^d   Petranova, Tzvetanka ^e   Porta, Francesco ^f   Iagnocco, Annamaria ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b Sf Maria Clinical Hospital   (Romania)

^c Clinical Rehabilitation Hospital Cluj Napoca   (Romania)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^e Centre of Rheumatology St Irina   (Bulgaria)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^g SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Elbow; Epicondylitis; Synovitis; Ulnar nerve entrapment; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BONE DISEASE; BONE EROSION; BURSITIS; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CUBITAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELBOW; ELBOW ECHOGRAPHY; EPICONDYLITIS; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GOLFER ARM; HUMAN; JOINT DESTRUCTION; JOINT EFFUSION; LIGAMENT AND TENDON INJURY; MEDIAL EPICONDYLITIS; NEURITIS; OLECRANON BURSITIS; OSTEOPHYTE; PATIENT POSITIONING; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNOVITIS; TENNIS ELBOW; ULNAR COLLATERAL LIGAMENT INJURY;

ELBOW; ELBOW JOINT; HUMANS; JOINT DISEASES; RHEUMATIC DISEASES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84867335258     PISSN: 18444172     EISSN: 20668643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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