Inter-examiner reliability of the diagnosis of cervical pillar hyperplasia (CPH) and the correlation between CPH and spinal degenerative joint disease (DJD)

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 1-10

  Stupar, Maja ^a   Mauron, Damien ^b   Peterson, Cynthia K ^a  

^a CANADIAN MEMORIAL CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGE   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL PILLAR HYPERPLASIA; CERVICAL SPINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; MALE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; X RAY FILM; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPINE DISEASE; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINAL STENOSIS; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

EID: 2942752318     PISSN: 14712474     EISSN: 14712474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-4-28     Document Type: Article

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