Qualitative assessment of cervical spinal stenosis: Observer variability on CT and MR images

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 766-769

  Stafira, Jeffrey S ^a   Sonnad, Jagadeesh R ^a   Yuh, William T C ^a   Huard, David R ^a   Acker, Robin E ^a   Nguyen, Dan L ^a   Maley, Joan E ^b   Ramji, Faridali G ^a   Li, Wen Bin ^a   Loftus, Christopher M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MYELOGRAPHY; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGIST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYELOGRAPHY; OBSERVER VARIATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL STENOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037393704     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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