ArticleOsteoarthritis imaging2025
Methods of measuring radiographic patellofemoral joint alignment and morphology: A scoping review.
Article in Osteoarthritis imaging, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
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.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
3 citing papers in PubMed.
- Methods of measuring radiographic patellofemoral joint alignment and morphology: A scoping review.Osteoarthritis imaging · 2025Article
- Classification approaches used to grade radiographic patellofemoral osteoarthritis: A scoping review.Osteoarthritis imaging · 2025Article
- A Review for automated classification of knee osteoarthritis using KL grading scheme for X-rays.Biomedical engineering letters · 2025Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
10 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Objective: Conduct a scoping review to identify radiographic measures of patellofemoral joint (PFJ) alignment and bony morphology reported in literature published during a representative period (2014-2018), and describe their reported measurement properties. Design: Eight electronic databases were searched using keywords relating to "patellofemoral" and "radiograph". Identified records were screened for eligibility by two independent assessors. English-language studies published in the years 2014-2018 were included if they reported: (i) acquiring PFJ radiographs; (ii) method of radiograph acquisition; and (iii) descriptions of radiographic PFJ alignment and bony morphology measures. Non-human and cadaveric studies, single-case studies, and studies with mean participant age <10 years were excluded. For studies that reported measurement properties (reliability, validity, responsiveness), quality appraisal was performed by two independent assessors using the COSMIN Risk of Bias tool. Descriptive data were reported. Results: Of 18,678 records identified, 336 articles met our criteria . Ninety-one unique radiographic alignment and morphology measures were described. Most prevalent were measures of patellar height (222, 66.1 %), patellar alignment (142, 42.3 %), and patellar inclination (121, 36 %). Reliability data were reported by 83 (24.7 %) of the studies. Conclusions: During the selected period, 91 different radiographic measures of PFJ alignment and morphology were reported, with multiple methods used to obtain similar measures, and limited data on reliability and validity. These findings make it difficult to recommend specific measures for clinical and research use. Further studies are needed to determine the measurement properties of radiographic PFJ alignment and morphology measures, and to establish consensus-based recommendations for priority measures and acquisition methods for specific PFJ conditions.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.