Breaking the law of valgus: The surprising and unexplained prevalence of medial patellofemoral cartilage damage

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1827-1832

  Gross, K Douglas ^a,b   Niu, Jingbo ^a   Stefanik, Joshua J ^a   Guermazi, Ali ^a   Roemer, Frank W ^a   Sharma, Leena ^c   Nevitt, Michael C ^d   Segal, Neil A ^e   Lewis, Cora E ^f   Felson, David T ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MGH INSTITUTE OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^f University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CARTILAGE DEGENERATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATELLOFEMORAL JOINT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; VALGUS KNEE; VARUS KNEE; WHOLE ORGAN MRI SCORE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FRACTURES, CARTILAGE; GENU VALGUM; GENU VARUM; HUMANS; KNEE INJURIES; KNEE JOINT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PATELLOFEMORAL JOINT; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84867403284     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2011-200606     Document Type: Article

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