Three-dimensional morphology of the knee reveals ethnic differences

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 470, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 172-185

  Mahfouz, Mohamed ^a   Fatah, Emam ElHak Abdel ^a   Bowers, Lyndsay Smith ^a   Scuderi, Giles ^b  

^a University of Tennessee   (United States)

^b LENOX HILL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CONFERENCE PAPER; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FEMUR; FEMUR CONDYLE; HUMAN; KNEE MORPHOLOGY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TIBIA; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FAR EAST; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; KNEE; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FAR EAST; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; REFERENCE VALUES; SAMPLING STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84859310010     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-011-2089-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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