What is the clinical and ethical importance of incidental abnormalities found by knee MRI?

Arthritis Research and Therapy

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Grainger, Rebecca ^a,b   Stuckey, Stephen ^c   O'Sullivan, Richard ^d   Davis, Susan R ^e   Ebeling, Peter R ^f   Wluka, Anita E ^g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b MALAGHAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c Southern Health ^*  (Australia)

^d EPWORTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^g BAKER IDI HEART AND DIABETES INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^h MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENCHONDROMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYELOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOCHONDROMA; PREVALENCE; RESEARCH ETHICS; ARTHROPATHY; BONE MARROW; BONE TUMOR; CHONDROMA; HYPERPLASIA; INCIDENCE; KNEE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; PATHOLOGY; POPLITEAL CYST;

AGED; BONE MARROW; BONE NEOPLASMS; CHONDROMA; ETHICS, CLINICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; INCIDENCE; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; JOINT DISEASES; KNEE JOINT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; OSTEOCHONDROMA; POPLITEAL CYST;

EID: 39749122694     PISSN: 14786354     EISSN: 14786362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/ar2371     Document Type: Article

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