Imaging of back pain in children

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 787-802

  Rodriguez, D P ^a   Poussaint, Tina Young ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CATECHOLAMINE; FAT; FLUORINE 18; GADOLINIUM; HEMOSIDERIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ABDOMINAL MASS; ACTINOMYCOSIS; AGE; ANEURYSMAL BONE CYST; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARACHNOIDITIS; ASTROCYTOMA; BACKACHE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BIOPSY; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; BLASTOMYCOSIS; BLOOD CULTURE; BONE; BONE GRAFT; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BONE TUMOR; CATECHOLAMINE URINE LEVEL; CERVICAL SPINE; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DISKITIS; DYSPHAGIA; ECHOGRAPHY; EOSINOPHILIC GRANULOMA; EPENDYMOMA; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; EPIDURAL SPACE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FALLING; FEVER; FOOTBALL; FRACTURE; GAIT; GANGLIONEUROMA; GERM CELL TUMOR; HAMSTRING; HERNIA; HISTIOCYTE; HISTOLOGY; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; IMAGING; INFLAMMATION; INJURY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTRACTABLE PAIN; IRRITABILITY; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LEISURE; LEUKEMIA; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIFESTYLE; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOMA; MALAISE; MENINGIOMA; MENINGITIS; MORNING STIFFNESS; MORPHOLOGY; MORQUIO SYNDROME; MUCOLIPIDOSIS TYPE 2; MUSCLE SPASM; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; MYELITIS; NEOPLASM; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NEUROFIBROMA; NIGHT SWEAT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCULT SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; OSTEOBLASTOMA; OSTEOCHONDROSIS; OSTEOCLASTOMA; OSTEOID OSTEOMA; OSTEOLYSIS; OSTEOMYELITIS; OSTEOSARCOMA; PATAU SYNDROME; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; SACRUM; SCHEUERMANN DISEASE; SCLEROSIS; SCOLIOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SKIN; SOCIAL ASPECT; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE FUSION; SPINE MOBILITY; SPONDYLITIS; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; SPORT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TACHYCARDIA; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; TORTICOLLIS; TUBERCULOSIS; VERTEBRA; VERTEBRA BODY; WEAKNESS; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WRESTLING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BACK PAIN; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; SPINAL DISEASES;

EID: 77952329790     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A1832     Document Type: Review

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