Neck and Low Back Pain: Neuroimaging

Neurologic Clinics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 439-471

  Ahmed, Manzoor ^a   Modic, Michael T ^b  

^a LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BONE MARROW DISEASE; CERVICOBRACHIAL NEURALGIA; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISKITIS; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LOW BACK PAIN; NECK PAIN; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOMYELITIS; OSTEOPHYTE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE INSTABILITY; SPONDYLITIS; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NECK PAIN; SPINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34247105667     PISSN: 07338619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ncl.2007.01.007     Document Type: Review

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