Preoperative radiographic assessment of limb-length discrepancy in total hip arthroplasty

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 469, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1677-1682

  Meermans, Geert ^a,b   Malik, Ahmad ^a   Witt, Johan ^a   Haddad, Fares ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEG LENGTH INEQUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; VALIDATION STUDY;

EID: 85027955929     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-010-1588-x     Document Type: Article

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