Ultrasonography of the shoulder with arthroscopic correlation

Clinics in Sports Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 391-408

  Yablon, Corrie M ^a   Bedi, Asheesh ^b   Morag, Yoav ^a   Jacobson, Jon A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic ultrasound imaging; Internal impingement; Long head biceps brachii injury; Rotator cuff tears; Shoulder ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR SUPERIOR INTERNAL IMPINGEMENT; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRASUBSTANCE TEAR; LONG HEAD BICEPS BRACHII TENDON SUBLUXATION; LONG HEAD BICEPS BRACHII TENDON TEAR; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTEROSUPERIOR INTERNAL IMPINGEMENT; REVIEW; ROTATOR CUFF FULL THICKNESS TEARS; ROTATOR CUFF INJURY; ROTATOR CUFF PARTIAL THICKNESS TEARS; ROTATOR CUFF RUPTURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHOULDER ARTHROSCOPY; SHOULDER IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME; SHOULDER RADIOGRAPHY; SUBLUXATION; TENDINITIS; TENDON INJURY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ARTHROSCOPY; HUMANS; ROTATOR CUFF; SHOULDER IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME; SHOULDER JOINT; TENDINOPATHY; TENDON INJURIES;

EID: 84879311808     PISSN: 02785919     EISSN: 1556228X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csm.2013.03.001     Document Type: Review

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