Does lumbar facet fluid detected on magnetic resonance imaging correlate with radiographic instability in patients with degenerative lumbar disease?

Spine

Volumn 32, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 1555-1560

  Rihn, Jeffrey A ^a   Lee, Joon Y ^a   Khan, Mustafa ^a   Ulibarri, James A ^a   Tannoury, Chadi ^b   Donaldson, William F ^a   Kang, James D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Degenerative; Facet; Fluid; Instability; Lumbar; MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEGENERATIVE LUMBAR DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR FACET FLUID; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE FUSION; SPINE INSTABILITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL STENOSIS; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

EID: 34250695530     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e318067dc55     Document Type: Article

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