(i) Current understanding of low back pain and intervertebral disc degeneration: epidemiological perspectives and phenotypes for genetic studies

Current Orthopaedics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 237-244

  Cheung, Kenneth M C ^a   Al Ghazi, Sameera ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

annulus fibrosis; degenerative disc disease; genetics; Low back pain; nucleus pulposus

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; STROMELYSIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

ARTICLE; CHINESE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FIBROMYALGIA; GENE MUTATION; GENETICS; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; IMAGING; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LABORATORY TEST; LOW BACK PAIN; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; MYOFASCIAL PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOMYELITIS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; SACROILIITIS; SOCIETY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS; TUMOR; UNITED KINGDOM; VERTEBRAL CANAL;

EID: 51249121118     PISSN: 02680890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cuor.2008.05.004     Document Type: Article

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