Back and leg pain in older adults: Presentation, diagnosis, and treatment

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 543-576

  Grobler, L J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

BACKACHE; CAUDA EQUINA SYNDROME; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; LEG PAIN; MYELOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOPOROSIS; RADICULAR PAIN; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE METASTASIS; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

EID: 0031881040     PISSN: 07490690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0749-0690(18)30105-8     Document Type: Review

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