What help and what confusion can imaging provide?

Bailliere's Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 115-139

  Boos, N ^a   Hodler, J ^a  

^a BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Asymptomatic alterations; Image modalities; Injection studies; Low back pain; Lumbar spine; MRI

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; IMAGING; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0031777181     PISSN: 09503579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0950-3579(98)80008-3     Document Type: Article

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