Reliability of lower extremity alignment measurement using radiographs and PACS

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1693-1698

  Marx, R G ^a   Grimm, P ^a   Lillemoe, K A ^a   Robertson, C M ^b   Ayeni, O R ^c   Lyman, S ^a   Bogner, E A ^a   Pavlov, H ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

^b UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alignment; Knee; Measurement; Osteotomy; PACS; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ANKLE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HIP; HISTOLOGY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; KNEE; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIBIA;

ANKLE JOINT; FEMALE; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIBIA;

EID: 80052885877     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-011-1467-3     Document Type: Article

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