Imaging of lumbar intervertebral disk degeneration and aging, excluding disk herniations

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1255-1266

  Jarvik, Jeffrey G ^a,b   Deyo, Richard A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISKOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0033652447     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0033-8389(08)70005-8     Document Type: Article

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