Gender differences in knee cartilage volume as measured by magnetic resonance imaging

Osteoarthritis and Cartilage

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 265-271

  Cicuttini, Flavia ^a,c   Forbes, Andrew ^a   Morris, Kevin ^b   Darling, Sandy ^c   Bailey, Michael ^a   Stuckey, Stephen ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Australia)

^b Australian Computing and Communications Institute   (Australia)

^c ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cartilage; Knee; MRI; Volume

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE PROCESSING; KNEE; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATELLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TIBIA; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 0033136254     PISSN: 10634584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/joca.1998.0200     Document Type: Article

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