MR Imaging of the Spinal Bone Marrow

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Clinics of North America

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 175-198

  Tall, Michael A ^a   Thompson, Adrianne K ^b   Vertinsky, Talia ^b   Palka, Peter S ^a  

^a DAVID GRANT MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ANATOMY; ARTHROPATHY; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE MARROW; BONE MARROW DEPRESSION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; GAUCHER DISEASE; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LEUKEMIA; MYELITIS; MYELOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PATHOLOGY; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REVIEW; SARCOIDOSIS; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SPINAL CORD; SPINE SURGERY; SPONDYLITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STORAGE DISEASE; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS; WALDENSTROEM MACROGLOBULINEMIA;

BONE MARROW; BONE MARROW DISEASES; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINAL DISEASES;

EID: 34250720511     PISSN: 10649689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mric.2007.01.001     Document Type: Review

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