title: A new noninvasive quantitative method for fracture diagnosis.
abstract: Due to insufficient diagnostic possibilities the removal of the fixation in many cases is still a gamble with the patient as a loser. The urgent need for a sensitive and harmless method that can assist radiology can be met by new ultrasonic approach. Results of animal investigations are presented that prove that ultrasonic callus analysis (UCA) can be a useful tool for diagnosis of the fracture-healing progress, which provides efficient quantitative parameters for diagnosis and a new objective stability criterion.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002146:Bony Callus / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006406:Hematoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D011817:Rabbits; D011859:Radiography; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000379:methods*; D014945:Wound Healing