Technical tips to perform safe and effective Ultrasound Guided steroid joint injections in children

BACKGROUND: The aim of this article is to describe the technique used to perform ultrasound guided steroid joint injections in children in a group of joints that can be injected using ultrasound as the only image guidance modality. FINDINGS: The technique is described and didactic figures are provid...

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Autor principal: Parra, Dimitri A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Short Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4350981/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25745367
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1546-0096-13-2
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description BACKGROUND: The aim of this article is to describe the technique used to perform ultrasound guided steroid joint injections in children in a group of joints that can be injected using ultrasound as the only image guidance modality. FINDINGS: The technique is described and didactic figures are provided to illustrate key technical concepts. CONCLUSION: It is very important to be familiar with the sonographic appearance of the pediatric joints and the developing bone when performing ultrasound-guided joint injections in children.
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spelling pubmed-43509812015-03-06 Technical tips to perform safe and effective Ultrasound Guided steroid joint injections in children Parra, Dimitri A Pediatr Rheumatol Online J Short Report BACKGROUND: The aim of this article is to describe the technique used to perform ultrasound guided steroid joint injections in children in a group of joints that can be injected using ultrasound as the only image guidance modality. FINDINGS: The technique is described and didactic figures are provided to illustrate key technical concepts. CONCLUSION: It is very important to be familiar with the sonographic appearance of the pediatric joints and the developing bone when performing ultrasound-guided joint injections in children. BioMed Central 2015-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4350981/ /pubmed/25745367 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1546-0096-13-2 Text en © Parra; licensee BioMed Central. 2015 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4350981/
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