Medial-to-lateral ratio of tibiofemoral subchondral bone area is adapted to alignment and mechanical load

Calcified Tissue International

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 186-194

  Eckstein, Felix ^a,b   Hudelmaier, Martin ^a,b   Cahue, September ^c   Marshall, Meredith ^c   Sharma, Leena ^c  

^a PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b Chondrometrics GmbH   (Germany)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alignment; Functional adaptation; Knee; Magnetic resonance imaging; Subchondral bone

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FEMUR; HIP; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; KNEE; KNEE ARTHRITIS; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; LOADING TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIBIA; VALGUS KNEE; VARUS KNEE; WEIGHT BEARING;

AGED; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMANS; KNEE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; TIBIA; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 62349102647     PISSN: 0171967X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00223-008-9208-4     Document Type: Article

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