The accuracy and efficacy of palpation versus image-guided peripheral injections in sports medicine

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 296-303

  Hall, Mederic M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; METHYLENE BLUE;

ACROMIOCLAVICULAR JOINT; ANKLE; ARTHRITIS; ARTHROGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BICEPS TENDON DISORDER; CADAVER; COCHRANE LIBRARY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELBOW; FLUOROSCOPY; FOOT; HAND; HIP; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED INJECTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INJECTION; KNEE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ARTHROGRAPHY; MEDLINE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALPATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REIMBURSEMENT; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SHOULDER; SHOULDER ARTHROSCOPY; SHOULDER IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME; SPORTS MEDICINE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TENDON DISEASE; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; ULTRASOUND; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WRIST;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTICULAR; INTERNATIONALITY; PALPATION; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPORTS MEDICINE;

EID: 84884552371     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CSMR.0000434103.32478.36     Document Type: Article

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