Streamlining the evaluation of low back pain in children

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 466, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1971-1977

  Auerbach, Joshua D ^a,b   Ahn, Jaimo ^a,b   Zgonis, Miltiadis H ^a,b   Reddy, Sudheer C ^a,b   Ecker, Malcolm L ^a,b   Flynn, John M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BONE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING;

ADOLESCENT; BONE AND BONES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 48849103168     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-008-0296-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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