title: [Orthopedic diagnostics using acoustic phenomena].
abstract: The clinical analysis of joint noises has practical significance in orthopedics. It has been attempted from time to time in the past 100 years to amplify, analyse and record joint noises. Despite the increased effort from decade to decade, the method of phonoarthrography has not been able to establish itself, since the measurements are complex and poorly reproducible. Artifacts can easily be confused with pathological findings. Finally, because of the different physical properties of light, the sense of vision has essential advantages compared with the sense of hearing, which can localize a sound source only insufficiently accurately.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Orthopädische Chirurgie, Kantonsspital St. Gallen.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Engelhardt
mesh_terms: D001175:Arthrography / Q000379:methods*; D001314:Auscultation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007592:Joint Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D013016:Sound
vernacular_title: Orthopädische Diagnostik mit akustischen Phänomenen.