Synovial excrescences and cysts of the spine: Clinicopathological features and contributions to spinal stenosis

Clinical Neuropathology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 80-90

  Sze, C I ^a   Kindt, G ^a   Huffer, W B ^a   Chang, M ^a   Wang, M ^a   Kleinschmidt DeMasters, B K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Back pain; Calcium pyrophosphate; Facet joint; Ganglion cyst; Radiculopathy; Synovial cyst

Indexed keywords

IRON; MUCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; GIANT CELL; GRANULATION TISSUE; HISTIOCYTE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPLASIA; INFLAMMATION; INTRAOSSEOUS GANGLION; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE FUSION; SPINE SURGERY; SURGEON; SURGICAL PATIENT; SYMPTOM; SYNOVIAL CYST; SYNOVIAL EXCRESCENCE; SYNOVIOCYTE; SYNOVIUM; VERTEBRAL CANAL; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

AGED; BACK PAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPINAL STENOSIS; SPINE; SYNOVIAL CYST; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE;

EID: 1642329723     PISSN: 07225091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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