Relationship of the Medial Clavicular Head to the Manubrium in Normal and Symptomatic Degenerated

Sternoclavicular Joints

by Alexander Van Tongel, Jens Valcke, Iwein Piepers, Thomas Verschueren, and Lieven De Wilde

J Bone Joint Surg AmVolume 96(13):e109

July 2, 2014

©2014 by The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.

Axial, sagittal, and frontal CT views of symptomatic degenerative sternoclavicular arthritis.

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Determination of the best-fitting plane based on a consistent triangular area in the manubrium.

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Determination of the axial plane.

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Determination of points A, S, P, and I on the medial clavicular head.

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Measurement of the distance between point A and the frontal plane.

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Measurement of the distance between point S and the axial plane.

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Graph showing the AFr/AP ratios in all patients.

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Graph showing the SAx/SI ratios in all patients.

Alexander Van Tongel et al. J Bone Joint Surg Am 2014;96:e109

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