Reliability of lower-limb alignment measurements in patients with multiple epiphyseal dysplasia

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 470, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3566-3576

  Akhmedov, Bekhzad ^a   Sung, Ki Hyuk ^a   Chung, Chin Youb ^a   Lee, Kyoung Min ^a   Park, Moon Seok ^a  

^a Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANATOMIC TIBIOFEMORAL ANGLE; ARTICLE; BONE DYSPLASIA; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIMETAPHYSEAL ANGLE; EPIPHYSIS DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; LATERAL DISTAL FEMORAL ANGLE; LOWER LIMB ALIGNMENT; MALE; MECHANICAL AXIS DEVIATION; MECHANICAL TIBIOFEMORAL ANGLE; MEDIAL PROXIMAL TIBIAL ANGLE; MULTIPLE EPIPHYSEAL DYSPLASIA; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TELEROENTGENOGRAM; VALGUS KNEE; VARUS KNEE;

EID: 84871533973     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-012-2548-4     Document Type: Article

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