Clinical and radiological assessment of leg length.
This paper compares a clinical and a radiological method of measuring leg-length discrepancy in 107 adults, showing that clinical estimation is unreliable and suggesting that moderate degrees of leg-length difference play little, if any, part in the aetiology of backache.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000886:Anthropometry; D001416:Back Pain / Q000209:etiology; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005270:Femur Head / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D007870:Leg Length Inequality / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010808:Physical Examination; D011859:Radiography