Contralateral elbow radiographs can reliably diagnose radial head implant overlengthening

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 93, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 1339-1346

  Athwal, George S ^a   Rouleau, Dominique M ^b   MacDermid, Joy C ^a   King, Graham J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b HÔPITAL DU SACRÉ COEUR DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ELBOW RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS HEAD FRACTURE; RADIUS HEAD IMPLANT OVERLENGTHENING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 80052856923     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: 15351386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.J.01244     Document Type: Article

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