Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment of Closed Fracture Healing Using Computed Tomography and Conventional Radiography

Academic Radiology

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1267-1273

  Grigoryan, Mikayel ^a   Lynch, John A ^a   Fierlinger, Anke L ^a   Guermazi, Ali ^a   Fan, Bo ^a   MacLean, David B ^b   MacLean, Ainsley ^a   Genant, Harry K ^a  

^a Osteoporosis and Arthr Res Group   (United States)

^b PFIZER GLOBAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Callus; CT; Fracture healing; Fracture line; Quantitative; ROI

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANKLE FRACTURE; ARTICLE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CALLUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBULA; FRACTURE; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS FRACTURE; SCORING SYSTEM; TIBIA FRACTURE;

EID: 0242362702     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1076-6332(03)00467-7     Document Type: Article

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