Lumbar spine imaging: Normal variants, imaging pitfalls, and artifacts

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1207-1253

  Tehranzadeh, Jamshid ^a   Andrews, Carol ^b   Wong, Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISKOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINE; NERVE ENDING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0033667935     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0033-8389(08)70004-6     Document Type: Article

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