Which is the best method to determine the patellar height in children and adolescents?

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 468, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1344-1351

  Park, Moon Seok ^a   Chung, Chin Youb ^a   Lee, Kyoung Min ^a   Lee, Sang Hyeong ^a   Choi, In Ho ^b  

^a Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University Children's Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT HEALTH; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLACKBURNE PEEL METHOD; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INSALL SALVATI METHOD; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; KOSHINO SUGIMOTO METHOD; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSSIFICATION; PATELLA; PATELLA TENDON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY;

EID: 77953286772     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-009-0995-3     Document Type: Article

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