N Z Med J. 1975 May 28;81(540):477-80.

Clinical and radiological assessment of leg length.

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This paper compares a clinical and a radiological method of measuring leg-length discrepancy in 107 adults, showing that clinical estimation is unreliable and suggesting that moderate degrees of leg-length difference play little, if any, part in the aetiology of backache.

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