Influence of meniscus on cartilage and subchondral bone features of knees from older individuals: A cadaver study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2017, Pages

  Touraine, Sébastien ^a,b   Bouhadoun, Hamid ^a   Engelke, Klaus ^c   Laredo, Jean Denis ^a,b   Chappard, Christine ^a  

^a Paris university   (France)

^b HÔPITAL LARIBOISIÈRE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN CORTEX; CADAVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYALINE CARTILAGE; KNEE MENISCUS; MEDIAL TIBIAL PLATEAU; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; POROSITY; STRUCTURE MODEL INDEX; THICKNESS; TRABECULAR BONE; VERY ELDERLY; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; KNEE; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MALE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WEIGHT BEARING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYALINE CARTILAGE; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MENISCUS; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; WEIGHT-BEARING; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 85027219019     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0181956     Document Type: Article

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