Reliability of a technique for determining sagittal knee geometry from lateral knee radiographs

Knee

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 318-323

  Chow, John W ^a   Park, Soo An ^a   Wight, Jeff T ^a   Tillman, Mark D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Effective moment arm; Patella height; Patellar mechanism angle; Patellar tendon angle; Patellar tendon length

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HEIGHT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT CAVITY; KNEE; KNEE FUNCTION; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; MALE; MUSCLE FORCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATELLA; PATELLA TENDON; PATELLOFEMORAL JOINT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RELIABILITY; STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; KNEE JOINT; MALE; PATELLA; PATELLAR LIGAMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33745656440     PISSN: 09680160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knee.2006.02.008     Document Type: Article

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