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ArticleUltrasound in medicine & biology2021

Pre-Operative Femoral Cartilage Ultrasound Characteristics Are Altered in People Who Report Symptoms at 1 year After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction.

Matthew S Harkey, Jeffrey B Driban, Christopher Kuenze, Ming Zhang, Matthew J Salzler

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Article in Ultrasound in medicine & biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 32% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Advances in cartilage imaging techniques.Nature reviews. Rheumatology · 2026
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  5. Femoral cartilage ultrasound echo-intensity is a valid measure of cartilage composition.Journal of orthopaedic research : official publication of the Orthopaedic Research Society · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Matthew S HarkeyDepartment of Kinesiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA. Electronic address: harkeym1@msu.edu.
Jeffrey B DribanDivision of Rheumatology, Allergy, & Immunology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Christopher KuenzeDepartment of Kinesiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
Ming ZhangDivision of Rheumatology, Allergy, & Immunology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Department of Computer Science & Networking, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Matthew J SalzlerDepartment of Orthopaedics, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Tufts Medical Center · USMichigan State University · US

Funding

University of Massachusetts Center for Clinical and Translational ScienceTL1TR001454 · NCATS · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI LEWIS, BRIAN C · 2015 to 2024
$3.6M
NCATS NIH HHS TL1 TR001454
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We assessed whether pre-operative femoral cartilage thickness and echo intensity on ultrasound are different between individuals who are symptomatic (n = 6) and asymptomatic (n = 7) at 1 year after a primary unilateral anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction (age, 23 ± 4 y; 31% women, 69% men; body mass index, 24.9 ± 3.7 kg/m

Indexed as

Anterior Cruciate Ligament ReconstructionAdultAsymptomatic DiseasesCartilage, ArticularFemaleFemurHumansMaleOrgan SizePostoperative PeriodPreoperative PeriodProspective StudiesTime FactorsUltrasonographyYoung AdultEchogenicityEcho intensityKneeKOOSThicknessUltrasonography

Identifiers

PMID33931287
PMCPMC8169620
OpenAlexW3158055782

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