Causes of lumbosacral plexopathy

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 987-995

  Planner, A C ^a   Donaghy, M ^b   Moore, N R ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ANAMNESIS; BACKACHE; CARCINOMA; CHORDOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEMATOMA; HIP DISEASE; HUMAN; INNERVATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; ISCHIALGIA; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; LYMPHOMA; METASTASIS; NERVE BIOPSY; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SARCOMA; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM; CHILD; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE SHEATH NEOPLASMS; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33750623208     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2006.04.018     Document Type: Review

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