- Rosenburg View:
- used to evaluate for narrowing of the cartilage space in the wt. bearing,
flexed knee position;
- this provides a film with the anterior margin of the tibial plateau
superimposed on the posterior margin;
- technique:
- patient is standing with the knees flexed at 45 deg;
- wt is equally distributed on the two extremities, the toes
point straight forward and the patellae touch the cassette;
- central beam directed at the inferior pole of the patella with
10 deg caudal tilt;
- x-ray machine is 40 in. from the cassette;
- both knees are included on one cassette;
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The forty-five-degree posteroanterior flexion weight-bearing radiograph
of the knee.
