Back Pain in the Elderly

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 271-289

  Broder, Joshua ^a   Snarski, Jaime T ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DEXAMETHASONE; GADOLINIUM; STEROID;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA DISSECTION; BACKACHE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CAUDA EQUINA SYNDROME; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DEBRIDEMENT; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LAMINECTOMY; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLASTIC SURGERY; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE METASTASIS; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPONDYLITIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION;

AGED; AORTIC DISEASES; BACK PAIN; HUMANS; OSTEOMYELITIS; POLYRADICULOPATHY; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION;

EID: 34247229119     PISSN: 07490690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cger.2007.01.011     Document Type: Review

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