Revision 1 Size and position of the healthy meniscus, and its Correlation with sex, height, weight, and bone area- a cross-sectional study

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Bloecker, Katja ^a   Englund, Martin ^b,c   Wirth, Wolfgang ^a,d   Hudelmaier, Martin ^a,d   Burgkart, Rainer ^e   Frobell, Richard B ^a,b   Eckstein, Felix ^a,d  

^a PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Chondrometrics GmbH   (Germany)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BONE STRUCTURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNEE MENISCUS; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEX; SEX RATIO; TIBIA; HISTOLOGY; KNEE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE;

AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENISCI, TIBIAL; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 80055011563     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-12-248     Document Type: Article

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