Elias Primetis, Dionysios Drakopoulos, Dominik Sieron, Hugo Meusburger, Karol Szyluk, Paweł Niemiec, Verena C Obmann, Alan A Peters, Adrian T Huber, Lukas Ebner, Georgios Delimpasis, Andreas Christe
Background and Objectives : Osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee is a degenerative disorder characterized by damage to the joint cartilage, pain, swelling, and walking disability. The purpose of this study was to assess whether demographic and radiologic parameters (knee diameters and knee cross-sectional area from magnetic resonance (MR) images) could be used as surrogate biomarkers for the prediction of OA. Materials and Methods : The knee diameters and cross-sectional areas of 481 patients were measured on knee MR images, and the corresponding demographic parameters were extracted from the patients' clinical records...
December 23, 2022: Medicina