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Stress fracture of the scaphoid in an elite junior tennis player: a case report and review of the literature

BACKGROUND: The carpal scaphoid is the most commonly fractured carpal bone in young adults after a fall on an outstretched arm that results in acute dorsal flexion of the wrist. However, stress fractures of the scaphoid are relatively rare. To the best of our knowledge, we describe the first case in...

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Autores principales: Kohyama, Sho, Kanamori, Akihiro, Tanaka, Toshikazu, Hara, Yuki, Yamazaki, Masashi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4717662/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26781295
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-015-0785-3