Cervical and Lumbar Spinal Changes Diagnosed in Four-View Radiographs of 732 Military Pilots

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 154-157

  Aydoǧ, Sedat Tolga ^a   Türbedar, Ertunç ^b   Demirel, A Haydar ^a   Tetik, Onur ^a   Akin, Ahmet ^c   Doral, Mahmut Nedim ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Aerospace Medicine

^c GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aircraft pilot; Radiology; Spinal pathologies; Vertebral pathologies

Indexed keywords

AIRPLANE PILOT; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HELICOPTER; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILITARY MEDICINE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPONDYLARTHRITIS; SPONDYLITIS;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AGE FACTORS; BODY HEIGHT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPONDYLARTHRITIS; SPONDYLITIS;

EID: 1642540022     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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