Journal:
:trauma monthly
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mohammad reza ghane trauma research center, baqiyatallah university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran
mohammad saeid rezaee-zavareh trauma research center, baqiyatallah university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran; students’ research committee, baqiyatallah university of medical science, tehran, ir iran; trauma research center, baqiyatallah university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran. tel/fax: +98-2181264354
mohammad kazem emami-meibodi trauma research center, baqiyatallah university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran
vahid dehghani students’ research committee, baqiyatallah university of medical science, tehran, ir iran
conclusions a clinical examination combined with a plain radiograph should be considered to improve the diagnostic precision for patients presenting with scaphoid fractures in an emergency department. in this way, both overtreatment and undertreatment of patients can be avoided. results scaphoid tubercle tenderness had a sensitivity of 95.23% and a specificity of 74.07% in the diagnosis of scap...
