Importance of intervertebral disc size in low back pain

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 734-739

  Turk, Zmago ^a   Čelan, Dušan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Intervertebral disc; Low back pain; Measurement; Occurrence; Tomography, X ray computed

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 11144234221     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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