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J Arthroplasty
September 2008
Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, California 94107, USA.
There are currently no ideal quantitative measures assessing osteolysis after total joint arthroplasty. This study reports a new approach for quantification of osteolytic lesions on radiographs of total hip arthroplasty with the hypothesis that computer-assisted lesion quantification improves analysis precision over currently used qualitative visual assessment and thus improves progression monitoring. Duplicate exposure sets of anterior-posterior and frog-leg view radiographs of 15 volunteer total hip arthroplasty patients with radiographically evident periprosthetic lucencies were used.
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