Cervical and lumbar MRI findings in aviators as a function of aircraft type

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 77, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1158-1161

  Landau, Dan Avi ^a,c   Chapnick, Leah ^a   Yoffe, Nechemia ^a   Azaria, Bella ^a   Goldstein, Liav ^a   Atar, Eli ^b  

^a IAF   (Israel)

^b RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c Aeromedical Center   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cervical spine; Lumbar spine; Rotary wing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRCRAFT; AIRPLANE CREW; AIRPLANE PILOT; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HELICOPTER; HELICOPTER PILOT; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPONDYLOSIS; STENOSIS; TRANSPORT PILOT;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AGE FACTORS; AIRCRAFT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL DISEASES;

EID: 33750430649     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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