Current Classification and Imaging of Congenital Spinal Abnormalities

Seminars in Roentgenology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 250-273

  Rossi, Andrea ^a   Gandolfo, Carlo ^a   Morana, Giovanni ^a   Piatelli, Gianluca ^a   Ravegnani, Marcello ^a   Consales, Alessandro ^a   Pavanello, Marco ^a   Cama, Armando ^a   Tortori Donati, Paolo ^a  

^a G GASLINI INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EMBRYOLOGY; GASTRULATION; HEMIMYELOCELE; HEMIMYELOMENINGOCELE; HUMAN; LIPOMA; MENINGOMYELOCELE; MYELOCELE; MYELOCYSTOCELE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NEURULATION; NOTOCHORD; PLACODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINA BIFIDA; SPINE; SPINE MALFORMATION; TETHERED CORD SYNDROME;

HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; SPINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33748942468     PISSN: 0037198X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ro.2006.07.001     Document Type: Article

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