Radiographs are not useful in detecting arthroscopically confirmed mild chondral damage

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 442, Issue , 2006, Pages 245-251

  Wright, Rick W ^a   Boyce, Robert H ^b   Michener, Todd ^b   Shyr, Yu ^b   McCarty, Eric C ^b   Spindler, Kurt P ^b  

^a BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; CHONDRAL DAMAGE; CHONDROMALACIA; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOINT CAVITY; KNEE ARTHROSCOPY; KNEE DISEASE; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WEIGHT BEARING; ADOLESCENT; AGED; ARTHROSCOPY; CHILD; KNEE INJURY; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROSCOPY; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; CHILD; HUMANS; KNEE INJURIES; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 33645079681     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000167670.03197.c2     Document Type: Article

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