Imaging non-specific wrist pain: Interobserver agreement and diagnostic accuracy of SPECT/CT, MRI, CT, bone scan and plain radiographs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Huellner, Martin W ^a,c   Bur̈kert, Alexander ^a   Strobel, Klaus ^a   Pérez Lago, María Del Sol ^a   Werner, Lennart ^a   Hug, Urs ^a   Von Wartburg, Urs ^a   Seifert, Burkhardt ^b   Veit Haibach, Patrick ^a  

^a LUZERNER KANTONSSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; CHRONIC PAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; WRIST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CHRONIC PAIN; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WRIST;

EID: 84893572331     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085359     Document Type: Article

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