Review of existing grading systems for cervical or lumbar disc and facet joint degeneration

European Spine Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 705-718

  Kettler, Annette ^a   Wilke, Hans Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERVICAL SPINE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISKOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; JOINT DEGENERATION; KAPPA STATISTICS; LUMBAR DISK; LUMBAR SPINE; MEDLINE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINE; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; STANDARD;

CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDLINE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPINAL DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33745056235     PISSN: 09406719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-005-0954-y     Document Type: Review

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