Reliability of readings of magnetic resonance imaging features of lumbar spinal stenosis

Spine

Volumn 33, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 1605-1610

  Lurie, Jon D ^a,b   Tosteson, Anna N ^a,b   Tosteson, Tor D ^b   Carragee, Eugene ^c   Carrino, John ^d   Kaiser, Jay ^e   Sequeiros, Roberto T Blanco ^f   Lecomte, Amy Rosen ^f   Grove, Margaret R ^a   Blood, Emily A ^a   Pearson, Loretta H ^a   Weinstein, James N ^a   Herzog, Richard ^g  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Department of Community and Family Medicine ^*  (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e National Orthopedic Imaging Associates   (United States)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^g HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

Author keywords

MRI; Reliability; Spinal stenosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; RELIABILITY; SURGEON; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPINAL STENOSIS;

EID: 50649083755     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181791af3     Document Type: Article

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