Clinician approach to diagnosis of stress fractures including bisphosphonate-associated fractures

QJM: An International Journal of Medicine

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 99-105

  Mckenna, M J ^a,b   Heffernan, E ^a,b   Hurson, C ^a,b   Mckiernan, F E ^c  

^a ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CALCANEUS FRACTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HUMAN; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOMALACIA; OSTEOPOROSIS; OSTEOSCLEROSIS; PAGET BONE DISEASE; PELVIS FRACTURE; PERIOSTEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACRUM; STRESS FRACTURE;

BONE DENSITY CONSERVATION AGENTS; DIPHOSPHONATES; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FRACTURES, STRESS; HUMANS; OSTEITIS DEFORMANS; OSTEOMALACIA;

EID: 84893404579     PISSN: 14602725     EISSN: 14602393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/hct192     Document Type: Review

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