STUDY DESIGN Prospective physical measurement of the sagittal vertical axis (SVA). PURPOSE To evaluate a simple method for measuring SVA by analyzing its relationship with radiographic measurements and clinical appearance. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE No studies have examined physical measurements using the cranial center of gravity (CCG) in a relaxed standing position. METHODS The physical mea...

Interpretation of radiographs can be challenging. Many factors are involved, but these steps all relate to one central idea ... be systematic. It begins with production of good quality radiographs, moves to detection of radiographic abnormalities, coalesces into creation of differential diagnoses and a radiographic diagnosis and concludes with a plan for achieving a definitive diagnosis. Making...

Introduction: Medical uses of radiation have grown very rapidly over in the past two decades, medical uses represent the largest source of exposure to people, The most important methods in medical diagnosis are the useses of diagnostic radiology exams. Although the use of these methods is very beneficial for the treatment of patients, but ionizing radiation produces ion pairs, ...

AIM OF DATABASE The Danish Cerebral Palsy Follow-up Program is a combined follow-up program and national clinical quality database that aims to monitor and improve the quality of health care for children with cerebral palsy (CP). STUDY POPULATION The database includes children with CP aged 0-15 years and children with symptoms of CP aged 0-5 years. MAIN VARIABLES In the follow-up program, t...

BACKGROUND Pain and radiographic changes are common in persons with osteoarthritis, but their relative contributions to quality of life are unknown. METHODS Prospective cohort study of 1098 men and women aged 50-80 years, randomly selected from the electoral roll. Participants were interviewed at baseline and approximately 2.6 and five years later. Participants self-reported prior diagnosis o...

At the Trauma Unit of Pisa we performed an observational study reviewing nineties that about 200 patients were treated and underwent surgery for femoral neck fracture from 1998 to 2005. The clinical and radiographic results obtained were discrete, with a mortality of 42.5%, the survivors are still having a good quality of life.

Radiographic imaging is essential in diagnosis, treatment planning and follow-up in endodontics. The applications of cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) in endodontics has been widely reported in the literature.It provides high-quality, accurate threedimensional (3D) representations of the osseous elements of the maxillofacial skeleton. The purpose of this article is to discuss the features, a...

OBJECTIVES To improve the reproducibility and accuracy of joint space width (JSW) measurement as an assessment of cartilage loss in patients with osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee by determining how precision and accuracy of JSW measurement were altered by a computerised method of measurement, correction for radiographic magnification, radiography of the knee in the standing semiflexed view, and ...

PURPOSE This study's purpose was to determine the pulpotomy-to-crown ratio (PCR) in a high-early childhood caries patient population and factors associated with choice of pulpotomy and crown treatments. METHODS This was a retrospective quality assurance chart review. Five calibrated examiners (kappa=0.86) rated radiographic caries from available films. Demographic data, including age, health ...

Analysis of bone strength in radiographic images is an important component of estimation of bone quality in diseases such as osteoporosis. Conventional radiographic femur bone images are used to analyze its architecture using bi-dimensional empirical mode decomposition method. Surface interpolation of local maxima and minima points of an image is a crucial part of bi-dimensional empirical mode ...