Measurement of the humeral head retroversion angle. A new radiographic method

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 406-409

  Öztuna, Volkan ^a,b   Öztürk, Hakan ^a   Eskandari M , Metin ^a   Kuyurtar, Fehmi ^a  

^a MERSIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GMK Bulvarý   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Humerus; Radiography; Torsion

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTHROPLASTY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GONIOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMERUS HEAD; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOINT FUNCTION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NORMAL HUMAN; OSTEOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SHOULDER; SHOULDER RADIOGRAPHY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0036944374     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00402-002-0398-3     Document Type: Article

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