Femoroacetabular impingement: Can the alpha angle be estimated?

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 190, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1260-1262

  Nouh, Mohamed R ^a,b   Schweitzer, Mark E ^a   Rybak, Leon ^a   Cohen, Jodi ^a  

^a NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES   (United States)

^b ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Alpha angle; Femoroacetabular impingement; Hip joint

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGING; LIMB DISEASE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACETABULUM; ADULT; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FEMUR HEAD; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; JOINT DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 43649085478     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.3258     Document Type: Article

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