Estimation of pretraumatic femoral antetorsion in bilateral femoral shaft fractures

Skeletal Radiology

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1183-1187

  Citak, Musa ^a,c   Citak, Mustafa ^c   Kendoff, Daniel ^b   O'Loughlin, Padhraig F ^b   Tavassol, Frank ^a   Jagodzinski, Michael ^a   Krettek, Christian ^a   Hüfner, Tobias ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antetorsion; Bilateral femoral fracture; CAS; Imaging; Measurement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIGITAL IMAGING AND COMMUNICATIONS IN MEDICINE; FEMORAL ANTETORSION; FEMUR CONDYLE; FEMUR HEAD; FEMUR NECK; FEMUR SHAFT FRACTURE; GREATER TROCHANTER; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEASUREMENT; MECHANICAL TORSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; FEMORAL FRACTURES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TORSION ABNORMALITY;

EID: 70450252123     PISSN: 03642348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00256-009-0748-0     Document Type: Article

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