Giant fatty Schmorl's nodes: CT findings in four patients

Skeletal Radiology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 29-34

  Coulier, B ^a  

^a Clinique St Luc Bouge   (Belgium)

Author keywords

CT; Fat; Lumbar spine; Schmorl's node

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BODY FAT; BODY HEIGHT; BONE NECROSIS; CASE REPORT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYST; DENSITY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FAT CONTENT; FIBROBLAST; FRACTURE; HEALING; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LUMBAR SPINE; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; NERVE ENDING; OSTEOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHMORL NODE; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE INJURY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TISSUE DEGENERATION; TRABECULAR BONE; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOLYSIS; OSTEONECROSIS; RECURRENCE; SPINAL DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 11844260694     PISSN: 03642348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00256-004-0858-7     Document Type: Article

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