title: Computerized tomography: a method to study cross-sectional muscle area in nutritional evaluation.
abstract: We have compared two ways of determining cross-sectional muscle area in patients undergoing total parenteral nutrition, namely, computerised tomography and anthropometric measurements. There was a poor correlation between the two methods of determining cross-sectional limb area. The cross-sectional area increased in all patients considered on clinical grounds to have improved during the course of treatment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery and Roentgenology, Karolinska Institute at Danderyd Hospital, S-182 88 Danderyd, Sweden.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Backman
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Nordenvall
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tydén