Sacral insufficiency fracture, an unsuspected cause of low-back pain in elderly women

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 58-60

  Wild, A ^a   Jaeger, M ^a   Haak, H ^a   Mehdian, S H ^b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Insufficiency fracture; Osteoporosis; Radionuclide study; Sacrum

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; STEROID;

AGED; ARTICLE; BED REST; BONE METASTASIS; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOPOROSIS; OSTEOSCLEROSIS; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY; SACRAL INSUFFICIENCY FRACTURE; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; STRESS FRACTURE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0036939110     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004020100333     Document Type: Article

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