Subacromial space measurement: A reliable method indicating fatty infiltration in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 451, Issue , 2006, Pages 73-79

  Van De Sande, M A J ^a   Stoel, B C ^a   Rozing, P M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACROMION; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMERUS HEAD; INFRASPINATUS MUSCLE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; ROTATOR CUFF; ROTATOR CUFF INJURY; SHOULDER RADIOGRAPHY; SUBACROMIAL SPACE; AGED; FEMALE; HUMERUS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INJURY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SHOULDER;

ACROMION; ADIPOSITY; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUMERUS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROTATOR CUFF; SHOULDER JOINT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33749439954     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000229294.06475.41     Document Type: Article

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