Occult lumbar lateral spinal stenosis in neural foramina subjected to physiologic loading

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1605-1617

  Nowicki, Bruce H ^a   Haughton, Victor M ^a   Schmidt, Timothy A ^a   Lim, Tae Hong ^a   An, Howard S ^a   Riley III, Lee H ^a   Yu, Liyuan ^a   Hong, Jung Wha ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Foramina, vertebral; Nerves, spinal; Spine, anatomy; Spine, stenosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LOADING TEST; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ROTATION; SPINAL NERVE; STENOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LIGAMENTUM FLAVUM; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; SPINAL NERVES; SPINAL STENOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 0029855020     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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