Cartilage lesion score: Comparison of a quantitative assessment score with established semiquantitative MR scoring systems

Radiology

Volumn 271, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 479-487

  Alizai, Hamza ^a,b   Virayavanich, Warapat ^c   Joseph, Gabby B ^a   Nardo, Lorenzo ^d   Liu, Felix ^a   Liebl, Hans ^a   Nevitt, Michael C ^a   Lynch, John A ^a   McCulloch, Charles E ^a   Link, Thomas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BOSTON LEEDS OSTEOARTHRITIS KNEE SCORE SYSTEM; CARTILAGE DEGENERATION; CARTILAGE LESION SCORE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING EQUIPMENT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRATURE TRANSMIT RECEIVE COIL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; WHOLE ORGAN MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING SCORE SYSTEM;

CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84899575634     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.13122056     Document Type: Article

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