Log on/register
BioMed Central home | Journals A-Z | Feedback | Support | My details
 
Open AccessResearch

Inter -and intraobserver variation of ultrasonographic cartilage thickness assessments in small and large joints in healthy children

Anne Helene Spannow1 email, Mogens Pfeiffer-Jensen2 email, Niels Trolle Andersen3 email, Elisabeth Stenbøg1 email and Troels Herlin1 email

Department of Pediatrics, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Aarhus, Denmark

Department of Rheumatology, Aarhus University Hospital Norrebrogade, Aarhus, Denmark

Department of Biostatistics, Institute of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

author email corresponding author email

Pediatric Rheumatology 2009, 7:12doi:10.1186/1546-0096-7-12

Published: 4 June 2009

Additional files

Additional file 1:

Table S1. Interobserver variation of ultrasound cartilage thickness measurements in large and small joints in 74 healthy children.

Format: PDF Size: 59KB Download file

This file can be viewed with: Adobe Acrobat Reader

Open Data

Additional file 2:

Table S2. Intraobserver variation (observer I) in US measurements of articular cartilage thickness in 17 healthy children.

Format: PDF Size: 59KB Download file

This file can be viewed with: Adobe Acrobat Reader

Open Data

Additional file 3:

Table S3. Intraobserver variation (observer II) in US measurements of articular cartilage thickness in 17 healthy children.

Format: PDF Size: 59KB Download file

This file can be viewed with: Adobe Acrobat Reader

Open Data

Additional file 4:

Table S4. Cartilage thickness measurements for left and right extremity in the five examined joints in 74 healthy children – systemic and random variation.

Format: PDF Size: 45KB Download file

This file can be viewed with: Adobe Acrobat Reader

Open Data

© 1999-2010 BioMed Central Ltd unless otherwise stated. Part of Springer Science+Business Media.