Mini-symposium: Cervical spine: (i) Cervical radiculopathy and its unsolved problems

Current Orthopaedics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-6

  Tanaka, Y ^a   Kokubun, S ^a   Sato, T ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

AGE; CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS; CERVICOBRACHIAL NEURALGIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; NERVE ROOT COMPRESSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE SURGERY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0031890695     PISSN: 02680890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0268-0890(98)90001-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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