SPECT scan is a reliable tool for selection of patients undergoing unicompartmental knee arthroplasty

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 128, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 679-682

  Hart, Radek ^a   Konvička, Milan ^a   Filan, Peter ^a   deCordeiro, José ^a  

^a GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Indication; Knee; SPECT; Unicompartmental arthroplasty

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARTILAGE; CARTILAGE INJURY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIBIA; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 44649133180     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00402-007-0399-3     Document Type: Article

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