Meniscus body position, size, and shape in persons with and persons without radiographic knee osteoarthritis: Quantitative analyses of knee magnetic resonance images from the osteoarthritis initiative

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1804-1811

  Wenger, Andrea ^a   Wirth, Wolfgang ^a,b   Hudelmaier, Martin ^a,b   Noebauer Huhmann, Iris ^c   Trattnig, Siegfried ^c   Bloecker, Katja ^a   Frobell, Richard B ^a,d   Kwoh, C Kent ^e   Eckstein, Felix ^a,b   Englund, Martin ^e,f  

^a PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b Chondrometrics GmbH   (Germany)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^f BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; BODY BUILD; BODY HEIGHT; BODY POSITION; BODY SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNEE MENISCUS; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENISCI, TIBIAL; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE;

EID: 84879866219     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.37947     Document Type: Article

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