Determining knee joint alignment using digital photographs

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 776-780

  Schmitt, Holger ^a   Kappel, Hannes ^a   Moser, Michael T ^a   Cardenas Montemayor, Eloy ^a   Engelleiter, Karoly ^a   Kuni, Benita ^a   Clarius, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Knee joint alignment; Measurement; Photograph; Valgus; Varus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; KNEE; MORPHOMETRICS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KNEE JOINT; PHOTOGRAPHY; POSTURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 49249139624     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-008-0570-6     Document Type: Article

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