Epidemiology of cervical radiculopathy: A population-based study from rochester, minnesota, 1976 through 1990

Brain

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 325-335

  Radhakrishnan, Kurupath ^a   Litchy, William J ^a   O'fallon, W Michael ^a   Kurland, Leonard T ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical; Disc prolapse; Epidemiology; Radiculopathy; Spondylosis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICOBRACHIAL NEURALGIA; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULAR PAIN; RECURRENT DISEASE; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPONDYLOSIS; SYMPTOM; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS;

EID: 0028319282     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/117.2.325     Document Type: Article

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