Preoperative measurement of cartilage defects by MRI underestimates lesion size

Cartilage

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 389-393

  Gomoll, Andreas H ^a   Yoshioka, Hiroshi ^b   Watanabe, Atsuya ^c   Dunn, John C ^a   Minas, Tom ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TEIKYO UNIVERSITY CHIBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cartilage repair; Diagnostics; Joint involved; Knee; Magnetic resonance imaging; Repair

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857136859     PISSN: 19476035     EISSN: 19476043     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1947603510397534     Document Type: Article

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