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Radiologists' Interpretations of Magnetic Resonance Images of the Knee

Shigeru Ehara, MD1

1 Department of Radiology
Iwate Medical University
19-1 Uchimaru, Morioka 020-8505
Japan
ehara@iwate-med.ac.jp

Letter to the Editor

Radiologists' Interpretations of Magnetic Resonance Images of the Knee

Shigeru Ehara, MD1

1 Department of Radiology
Iwate Medical University
19-1 Uchimaru, Morioka 020-8505
Japan
ehara@iwate-med.ac.jp

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To The Editor:

In the paper "Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Knee in Children and Adolescents. Its Role in Clinical Decision-Making" (2005;87:497-502), Luhmann et al. proved that arthroscopic findings were better correlated with the orthopaedic surgeon's diagnosis based on clinical examination, plain radiographs, and magnetic resonance imaging than with the interpretation of magnetic resonance images by a group of radiologists. Because of methodological flaws, I do not think that we can extend this conclusion to orthopaedic surgeons and radiologists in general. The reasons are as follows.

First, comparison of two groups' performances should be performed by a third party or at least by an investigator who is not directly involved in the data collection. The orthopaedic surgeon involved in the clinical evaluation was the first author of this paper, and the radiologists probably consisted of pediatric radiologists with different amounts of expertise in these . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Scott J. Luhmann, MD1

1 St. Louis Children's Hospital
One Children's Place, Suite 4S20
St. Louis, MO 63110
luhmanns@msnotes.wustl.edu


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