the association between patellar alignment on magnetic resonance imaging and radiographic manifestations of knee osteoarthritis膝对齐在磁共振成像之间的关系和影像学表现的骨关节炎.pdf

Available online /content/9/2/R26 Vol 9 No 2 Open Access Research article The association between patellar alignment on magnetic resonance imaging and radiographic manifestations of knee osteoarthritis Leonid Kalichman, Yuqing Zhang, Jingbo Niu, Joyce Goggins, Daniel Gale, Yanyan Zhu, David T Felson and David J Hunter Boston University School of Medicine, Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training Unit, 650 Albany Street Suite X200, Boston, MA 02118, USA Corresponding author: David J Hunter, djhunter@ Received: 1 Nov 2006 Revisions requested: 31 Jan 2007 Revisions received: 2 Feb 2007 Accepted: 7 Mar 2007 Published: 7 Mar 2007 Arthritis Research Therapy 2007, 9:R26 (doi:10.1186/ar2138) This article is online at: /content/9/2/R26 © 2007 Kalichman et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract The aim of our study was to evaluate the association between statistically significant association with joint space narrowing patellar alignment by using magnetic resonance imaging images and osteophytosis in the lateral compartment. SA showed and radiographic manifestations of patello-femoral osteoarthritis significant association with medial joint space narrowing and (OA). Subjects were recruited to participate in a natural history with lateral and medial patellar osteophytosis. LPTA and BO study of symptomatic knee OA. We examined the relation of showed significant association with both radiographic indices of patellar alignm