Lumbar degenerative disk disease

Radiology

Volumn 245, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 43-61

  Modic, Michael T ^a   Ross, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISABILITY; DISKITIS; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR DISK; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BONE MARROW; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; JOINT INSTABILITY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINAL STENOSIS;

EID: 34548662684     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2451051706     Document Type: Review

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