1991 volvo award in clinical sciences: Smoking and lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration: An MRI study of identical twins

Spine

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 1991, Pages 1015-1021

  Battié, Michele C ^a   Videman, Tapio ^b   Gill, Kevin ^c   Moneta, Giovanni B ^d   Nyman, Rickard ^e   Kaprio, H Jaakko ^f   Koskenvuo, Markku ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Disc degeneration; Identical twins; Low back pain; Magnetic resonance imaging; Smoking

Indexed keywords

CIGARETTE SMOKE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AWARDS AND PRIZES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASES IN TWINS; FINLAND; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; SMOKING; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; SWEDEN; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0026347519     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-199109000-00001     Document Type: Article

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