Quantity and Quality of the Lower Extremity Muscles in Women with Knee Osteoarthritis

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2567-2574

  Taniguchi, Masashi ^a,b   Fukumoto, Yoshihiro ^c   Kobayashi, Masashi ^d   Kawasaki, Taku ^a   Maegawa, Shoji ^a   Ibuki, Satoko ^b   Ichihashi, Noriaki ^b  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KOBE GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Department of Orthopaedic Surgery   (Japan)

Author keywords

B Mode ultrasound; Echo intensity; Knee osteoarthritis; Muscle thickness; Vastus medialis

Indexed keywords

RADIOLOGY; ULTRASONICS;

BICEPS FEMORIS; ECHO INTENSITY; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MUSCLE THICKNESS; RECTUS FEMORIS; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR; VASTUS MEDIALIS;

MUSCLE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHO INTENSITY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; GLUTEUS MEDIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MUSCLE THICKNESS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; VASTUS INTERMEDIUS MUSCLE; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; VASTUS MEDIALIS MUSCLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84953348770     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2015.05.014     Document Type: Article

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