Spring ligament complex: MR imaging-anatomic correlation and findings in asymptomatic subjects

Radiology

Volumn 237, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 242-249

  Mengiardi, Bernard ^a   Zanetti, Marco ^a   Schöttle, Philip B ^a   Vienne, Patrick ^a   Bode, Beata ^b   Hodler, Juerg ^a   Pfirrmann, Christian W A ^a  

^a ORTHOPEDIC UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BALGRIST   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCANEONAVICULAR LIGAMENT; FEMALE; FLATFOOT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; LIGAMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR TIBIALIS TENDON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPRING LIGAMENT COMPLEX; TENDON; THICKNESS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CADAVER; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMANS; LIGAMENTS, ARTICULAR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 25144482887     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2371041065     Document Type: Article

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