Dimensions of the lumbar spinal canal: Variations and correlations with somatometric parameters using CT

European Radiology

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1581-1585

  Karantanas, A H ^a   Zibis, A H ^b   Papaliaga, M ^b   Georgiou, E ^b   Rousogiannis, S ^b  

^a GENERAL HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

CT; Dimensions; Lumbar spinal canal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DURA MATER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INNERVATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; ISCHIALGIA; LEG; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELOGRAPHY; NEURALGIA; POSTERIOR LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; VERTEBRAL CANAL; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; DURA MATER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LEG; LONGITUDINAL LIGAMENTS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELOGRAPHY; NEURALGIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCIATICA; SPINAL CANAL; SPINAL STENOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032238948     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003300050590     Document Type: Article

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