Relation of femoral to tibial torsion in children measured by ultrasound

Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics Part B

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 268-272

  Pasciak, Marek ^a,b   Stoll, Thomas M ^a   Hefti, Fritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b NONE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Femoral torsion; Tibial torsion; Ultrasound measurement

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMUR FRACTURE; FEMUR MALFORMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEG MALFORMATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TIBIA TORSION;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMUR; HUMANS; REFERENCE VALUES; TIBIA; TORSION;

EID: 0029837964     PISSN: 1060152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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