Volumetric evaluation of upper extremities in 250 healthy persons

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 17-22

  Gebruers, N ^a,b   Truijen, S ^a   Engelborghs, S ^a,b,c   De Deyn, Peter P ^a,b,c  

^a Hogeschool Antwerpen   (Belgium)

^b MIDDELHEIM HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Handedness; Limb volume; Lymphoedema; Oedema; Stroke; Volume assessment; Water displacement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARM EDEMA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMAL VALUE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VOLUMETRY; WATER DISPLACEMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BELGIUM; BODY COMPOSITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REFERENCE VALUES; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 33845531508     PISSN: 14750961     EISSN: 1475097X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-097X.2007.00708.x     Document Type: Article

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