Piriforms Syndrome: The Piriformis Syndrome Is Underdiagnosed

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 646-649

  Fishman, Loren M ^a   Schaefer, Michael P ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; ISCHIALGIA; NERVE COMPRESSION; NEUROLYSIS; OAK; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCIATIC NERVE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; SYNDROME;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; SYNDROME;

EID: 0642307722     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.10482     Document Type: Review

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