CT scan method accurately assesses humeral head retroversion

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 466, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 661-669

  Boileau, P ^a   Bicknell, R T ^a,c   Mazzoleni, N ^a   Walch, G ^b   Urien, J P ^a  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE NICE   (France)

^b Clinique Sainte Anne Lumiere   (France)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CADAVER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; HUMERAL HEAD RETROVERSION; HUMERUS HEAD; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER RADIOGRAPHY; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HUMERUS; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SHOULDER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CADAVER; HUMANS; HUMERUS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SHOULDER JOINT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 42449085441     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-007-0089-z     Document Type: Conference Paper

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