Intra and Interobserver Reliability and Agreement of Semiquantitative Vertebral Fracture Assessment on Chest Computed Tomography

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Buckens, Constantinus F ^a   de Jong, Pim A ^a   Mol, Christian ^a   Bakker, Eric ^a   Stallman, Hein P ^a   Mali, Willem P ^a   van der Graaf, Yolanda ^a   Verkooijen, Helena M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPINE FRACTURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VERTEBRAL FRACTURE ASSESSMENT;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPINAL FRACTURES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84881120639     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071204     Document Type: Article

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