Assessment of radial and ulnar torsion profiles with cross-sectional magnetic resonance imaging: A study of volunteers

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 88, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1582-1588

  Dumont, Charles E ^a   Pfirrmann, Christian W A ^a   Ziegler, Dirk ^b   Nagy, Ladislav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Klinik fur Handchirurgie Bad Neustadt   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; FOREARM; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOTOMY; PLATE FIXATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIUS; RANGE OF MOTION; ROTATION; TORSION; ULNA; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 33745684728     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.E.01042     Document Type: Article

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