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Volume 14, Issue 1 , Pages 29-33 , January 2007

A prospective study of the diagnostic potential of the knee tunnel view radiograph in assessing anterior knee pain

Caroline Hing
- Department of Orthopaedics, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich NR4 7UY, UK
- Corresponding author. Tel.: +44 1603 286 706; fax: +44 1603 287 498.
- Each author certifies that he or she has no commercial associations and no benefits in any form have been received or will be received from a commercial party related directly or indirectly to the subject of this article.
- Each author certifies that his or her institution has approved the human protocol for this investigation and that all investigations were conducted in conformity with ethical principals of research, and that informed consent was obtained.
Eden Raleigh
- Department of Orthopaedics, the Alfred Hospital, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
- Each author certifies that he or she has no commercial associations and no benefits in any form have been received or will be received from a commercial party related directly or indirectly to the subject of this article.
- Each author certifies that his or her institution has approved the human protocol for this investigation and that all investigations were conducted in conformity with ethical principals of research, and that informed consent was obtained.
Michael Bailey
- Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
- Each author certifies that he or she has no commercial associations and no benefits in any form have been received or will be received from a commercial party related directly or indirectly to the subject of this article.
- Each author certifies that his or her institution has approved the human protocol for this investigation and that all investigations were conducted in conformity with ethical principals of research, and that informed consent was obtained.
Nasir Shah
- Department of Orthopaedics, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich NR4 7UY, UK
- Each author certifies that he or she has no commercial associations and no benefits in any form have been received or will be received from a commercial party related directly or indirectly to the subject of this article.
- Each author certifies that his or her institution has approved the human protocol for this investigation and that all investigations were conducted in conformity with ethical principals of research, and that informed consent was obtained.
Tom Marshall
- Department of Radiology, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich NR4 7UY, UK
- Each author certifies that he or she has no commercial associations and no benefits in any form have been received or will be received from a commercial party related directly or indirectly to the subject of this article.
- Each author certifies that his or her institution has approved the human protocol for this investigation and that all investigations were conducted in conformity with ethical principals of research, and that informed consent was obtained.
Simon Donell
- Department of Orthopaedics, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich NR4 7UY, UK
- Each author certifies that he or she has no commercial associations and no benefits in any form have been received or will be received from a commercial party related directly or indirectly to the subject of this article.
- Each author certifies that his or her institution has approved the human protocol for this investigation and that all investigations were conducted in conformity with ethical principals of research, and that informed consent was obtained.
Malcolm Glasgow
- Department of Orthopaedics, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich NR4 7UY, UK
- Each author certifies that he or she has no commercial associations and no benefits in any form have been received or will be received from a commercial party related directly or indirectly to the subject of this article.
- Each author certifies that his or her institution has approved the human protocol for this investigation and that all investigations were conducted in conformity with ethical principals of research, and that informed consent was obtained.

Received 1 March 2006 ,Revised 4 October 2006 ,Accepted 15 October 2006.

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