Evaluation of back pain in children and adolescents

American Family Physician

Volumn 76, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1669-1676

  Bernstein, Robert M ^a,b   Cozen, Harold ^b  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

BACKACHE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; MENTAL DISEASE; MUSCLE STRAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PYELONEPHRITIS; REVIEW; SCHEUERMANN DISEASE; SCOLIOSIS; SICKLE CELL CRISIS; SPONDYLOARTHROPATHY; SPONDYLOLYSIS; TUMOR; VERTEBRA DISLOCATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHMS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; BACK PAIN; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EXERCISE THERAPY; HUMANS; SCOLIOSIS;

EID: 36849008516     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: 0002838X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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