Radiological features of lumbar spinal lesions in patients with rheumatoid arthritis with special reference to the changes around intervertebral discs

Spine Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 605-611

  Sakai, Toshinori ^a   Sairyo, Koichi ^a   Hamada, Daisuke ^a   Higashino, Kosaku ^a   Katoh, Shinsuke ^a   Takata, Yoichiro ^a   Shinomiya, Fumio ^b   Yasui, Natsuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b Mima Hospital in Yoshinogawa City   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lansbury index; Lumbar spine; Magnetic resonance imaging; Ochi's classification; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISEASE; LUMBAR DISK; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL STENOSIS;

EID: 45949100172     PISSN: 15299430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spinee.2007.03.008     Document Type: Article

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