Digital image enhancement improves diagnosis of nondisplaced proximal femur fractures

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 467, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 246-253

  Botser, Itamar Busheri ^a   Herman, Amir ^a   Nathaniel, Ram ^b   Rappaport, Dan ^b   Chechik, Aharon ^a  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b Surgix Orthopedic Solutions Ltd   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITAL IMAGING AND COMMUNICATIONS IN MEDICINE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FEMUR INTERTROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; FEMUR SUBCAPITAL FRACTURE; HIP RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MULTICENTER STUDY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DIAGNOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESIDENT; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ARTHROGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HIP; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL STAFF; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTHROGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMORAL FRACTURES; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 58249083271     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-008-0494-y     Document Type: Article

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