Methods for assessing leg length discrepancy

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 466, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2910-2922

  Sabharwal, Sanjeev ^a   Kumar, Ajay ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANKLE; BODY POSITION; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; FLEXION CONTRACTURE; HIP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KNEE; LEG LENGTH INEQUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MICRODOSE DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RELIABILITY; SCREENING TEST; STANDING; SUPINE POSITION; TREATMENT PLANNING; ULTRASOUND; X RAY; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

HUMANS; LEG LENGTH INEQUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 58149288282     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-008-0524-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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