Diagnostic imaging for back pain

Australian Family Physician

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 415-419

  Yelland, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKACHE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BACK PAIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FAMILY PRACTICE; HUMANS; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 4544349618     PISSN: 03008495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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