[Experimental investigations regarding the limations of radiological demonstration of fractures of the head  of the tibia (author's transl)].
The discrepancy between the radiological and the morphological finding, which we know from the clinic, could be confirmed in examinations of experimentally produced fractured of the lateral tibial condyle. The depth of the impressions of the tibial plateau and the width of the gap of the fracture can only be shown on additional tomographs and oblique radiographs of the knee-joint. Pure impressions of the tibial plateau up to a depth of 3 mm are totally beyond the radiological methods known for the present.
D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D006801:Humans; D007718:Knee Injuries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008954:Models, Biological; D013978:Tibial Fractures / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014056:Tomography, X-Ray
Experimentelle Untersuchungen über die Grenzen der röntgenologischen Darstellung von Schienbeinkopfbrüchen