Herniation of calcified intervertebral disk in a lumbar vertebral body presenting as acute scoliosis in a child

Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics Part B

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 306-307

  Yaniv, Moshe ^a   Bar Ziv, Jacob ^b   Wientroub, Shlomo ^a,c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acute scoliosis; Calcified discopathy; Calcified herniated disk; Lumbar spine

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCOLIOSIS; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032852090     PISSN: 1060152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00009957-199910000-00015     Document Type: Article

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