Neuroimaging in low back pain

American Family Physician

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2299-2306

  Craig Humphreys, S ^a   Eck, Jason C ^a,c   Hodges, Scott D ^b  

^a Center for Sports Medicine and Orthopaedics Chattanooga   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c 916 Cherrywood Apts ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM 67; GALLIUM CITRATE GA 67; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CAUDA EQUINA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISKOGRAPHY; FRACTURE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LOW BACK PAIN; METASTASIS; MYELOGRAPHY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0036606734     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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