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Relationship between knee pain and the presence, location, size and phenotype of femorotibial denuded areas of subchondral bone as visualized by MRI.
Osteoarthritis and cartilage - 1 Sept 2013
Cotofana S, Wyman B T, Benichou O, Dreher D, Nevitt M, Gardiner J, Wirth W, Hitzl W, Kwoh C K, Eckstein F, Frobell R B
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Conflicting associations between imaging biomarkers and pain in knee osteoarthritis (OA) have been reported. A relation between pain and denuded areas of subchondral bone (dABs) has been suggested and this study explores this relationship further by relating the presence, phenotype, location and size of dABs to different measures of knee pain. METHODS: 633 right knees from the Osteoarthritis Initiative...
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