Cartilage thickening in early radiographic knee osteoarthritis: A within-person, between-knee comparison

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1681-1690

  Cotofana, Sebastian ^a   Buck, Robert ^b   Wirth, Wolfgang ^a   Roemer, Frank ^c   Duryea, Jeff ^d   Nevitt, Michael ^e   Eckstein, Felix ^a  

^a PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b StatAnswers Consulting   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARTILAGE; CARTILAGE THICKNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOPHYTE; STEADY STATE;

AGED; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; OSTEOPHYTE; TIBIA; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 84868244318     PISSN: 2151464X     EISSN: 21514658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acr.21719     Document Type: Article

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