Assessment of correlation between knee notch width index and the three-dimensional notch volume

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1239-1244

  van Eck, Carola F ^a,b   Martins, Cesar A Q ^a   Lorenz, Stephan G F ^a   Fu, Freddie H ^a   Smolinski, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anterior cruciate ligament; Computed Tomography; Intercondylar notch; Notch width index; Radiograph

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FEMUR; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; KNEE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77955852365     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-010-1131-3     Document Type: Article

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