Imaging of Back Pain in Children and Adolescents

Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 224-244

  Khoury, Nabil J ^a   Hourani, Mukbil H ^a   Arabi, Mohammad M S ^a   Abi Fakher, Faysal ^a   Haddad, Maurice C ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ALBERS SCHOENBERG DISEASE; ALKAPTONURIA; ANEURYSMAL BONE CYST; AWARENESS; BACKACHE; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EWING SARCOMA; GROWTH DISORDER; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MALIGNANT HISTIOCYTOSIS; METABOLIC BONE DISEASE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; MUSCULOSKELETAL INJURY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOBLASTOMA; OSTEOID OSTEOMA; OSTEOPOROSIS; OSTEOSARCOMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOLOGIST; RARE DISEASE; REVIEW; SCHEUERMANN DISEASE; SCOLIOSIS; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPINE METASTASIS; SPONDYLOARTHROPATHY; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; SPONDYLOLYSIS; SPORT INJURY; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

ADOLESCENT; BACK PAIN; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33750479890     PISSN: 03630188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/j.cpradiol.2006.07.007     Document Type: Review

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