When back pain is not benign

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Siemionow, Krzysztof ^a   McLain, Robert F ^a,b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Lerner College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; BACKACHE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; BLADDER DISEASE; CAUDA EQUINA SYNDROME; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DUODENUM ULCER; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; HUMAN; KIDNEY PAIN; LOW BACK PAIN; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; REHABILITATION CARE; REVIEW; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE CANCER; SPINE FRACTURE; SPONDYLITIS; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; AGED; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE;

AGED; BACK PAIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS;

EID: 33748855403     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: 12182583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2006.07.1741     Document Type: Review

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