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To The Editor:In the paper "Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Knee in Children and
Adolescents. Its Role in Clinical Decision-Making"
(2005;87:497-502), Luhmann et
al. proved that arthroscopic findings were better correlated with the
orthopaedic surgeon's diagnosis based on clinical examination, plain
radiographs, and magnetic resonance imaging than with the interpretation of
magnetic resonance images by a group of radiologists. Because of
methodological flaws, I do not think that we can extend this conclusion to
orthopaedic surgeons and radiologists in general. The reasons are as
follows.