A novel standardized algorithm for evaluating patients with painful total knee arthroplasty using combined single photon emission tomography and conventional computerized tomography

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 939-944

  Hirschmann, Michael T ^a,b   Iranpour, Farhad ^b   Konala, Praveen ^b   Kerner, Anna ^c   Rasch, Helmut ^c   Cobb, Justin P ^b   Friederich, Niklaus F ^a  

^a Kantonsspital Bruderholz ^*  (Switzerland)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Institute for Radiology and Nuclear Medicine   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Knee; Localization scheme; Painful total knee arthroplasty; Replacement; SPECT CT

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; KNEE; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; OBSERVER VARIATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; RADIOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KNEE JOINT; OBSERVER VARIATION; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77953912323     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-010-1070-z     Document Type: Article

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