Should radiologists change the way they report plain radiography of the spine?

Lancet

Volumn 352, Issue 9123, 1998, Pages 229-230

  Roland, Martin ^a   Van Tulder, Maurits ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKACHE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEGENERATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSIBILITY; SHORT SURVEY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032543913     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(97)11499-4     Document Type: Note

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