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Study of the Relationship Between the Area of the Rectus Femoris Measured by Ultrasound and Psoas Muscle Index (PMI) and Skeletal Muscle Index (SMI) Measured by Opportunistic CT in Oncological Surgical Patients
2024-10-24
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<h4>Summary: </h4> Introduction: The psoas muscle index (PMI) and the skeletal mass index (SMI), as determined by computed tomography (CT), are the reference methods for assessing muscle mass. An alternative method is to measure the area of the rectus femoris muscle using ultrasonography (US).Objective : The objective of this study is twofold: firstly, to assess whether ultrasound imaging of the rectus femoris has...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 5d65e4c0-16e0-5f23-b6a4-053402212717
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202410.1787.v1
