Development and validation of a new method for the radiologic measurement of the tibial slope

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1643-1648

  Utzschneider, S ^a   Goettinger, M ^a   Weber, P ^a   Horng, A ^a   Glaser, C ^a,b   Jansson, V ^a   Muller P E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CT scan; MRI; Radiography; Radiologic measurement; Tibial slope

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; KNEE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHOMETRICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROTATION; STANDARD; TIBIA; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROTATION; TIBIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80052910999     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-011-1414-3     Document Type: Article

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