The intravertebral cleft in acute osteoporotic fractures: Fluid in magnetic resonance imaging-vacuum in computed tomography?

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Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Linn, Jennifer ^a   Birkenmaier, Christof ^a   Hoffmann, Ralf T ^a   Reiser, Maximilian ^a   Baur Melnyk, Andrea ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

CT; Intervertebral fluid; Intervertebral vacuum; MRI; Osteoporosis; Vertebral fractures

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HUMAN; INTRAVERTEBRAL VACUUM CLEFT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE DISEASE; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; BONE MARROW; BONE NECROSIS; EDEMA; GAS; INTRACELLULAR FLUID; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE; SPINE FRACTURE; VACUUM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE MARROW; EDEMA; FEMALE; GASES; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR FLUID; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEONECROSIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VACUUM;

EID: 64049114586     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e318193ca06     Document Type: Article

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