Hypoplastic lumbar pedicle in association with conjoined nerve root MRI demonstration

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 77-79

  Savas, Recep ^a   Calli, Cem ^a   Yünten, Nilgün ^a   Alper, Hüdaver ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

MRI; Nerves, spinal; Spine, abnormalities; Spine, developmental defect

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROLOGY;

HYPOPLASTIC LUMBAR PEDICLE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ADULT; APLASIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPOPLASIA; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SACRUM; SPINAL CANAL; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031732031     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-6111(98)00003-2     Document Type: Article

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