Assessing precision and accuracy of false-profile hip radiographs.

Assessing precision and accuracy of false-profile hip radiographs. - 2019

CONCLUSIONS: The quality of FP radiographs obtained in the clinical setting may be inconsistent. Standardising FP imaging produces more accurate images. Appropriate FP radiographs should have a distance between hip centres that is approximately 0.5 times the same distance found on an anteroposterior (AP) radiograph. METHODS: An imaging protocol was developed to obtain FP radiographs. Pelvic rotation was calculated using the described method for FP images obtained in the 3 months prior to and after implementation of this protocol. Student's t-test and variance ratio tests were used to determine differences in mean and variance of pelvic rotation between the 2 cohorts. Pelvic rotation calculation methodology was validated by using fluoroscopic C-arm to obtain AP and rotated images of 10 osteologic pelvises. The ratio of the distance between hip centres of each rotated image and AP image (WP/W) was determined. Intraclass coefficient correlation (ICC) was used to verify the relationship between WP/W and pelvic rotation. PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to assess the accuracy and precision of pelvic rotation in existing false-profile (FP) radiographs and to devise a method to improve accuracy and precision of FP radiographs. RESULTS: Mean WP/W was 0.47 (95% CI, 0.45-0.49). There were significant differences in mean pelvic rotation of the pre-protocol group (47.6degree; 95% CI, 45.6-49.5degree) and the post-protocol group (60.0degree; 95% CI, 58.7-61.3degree, p < 0.0001). Additionally, there was a significantly wider distribution of measurements in the pre-protocol group (SD = 7.9degree) compared to the post-protocol group (SD = 5.7degree, p = 0.0035).


English

1120-7000

10.1177/1120700019877848 [doi]


IN PROCESS -- NOT YET INDEXED


MedStar Union Memorial Hospital


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