Prevalence and pattern of spinal pathologies in a consecutive series of CTs/MRIs in an urban and rural Tanzanian hospital - A retrospective neuroradiological comparative analysis

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 122, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2010, Pages 47-51

  Zellner, Herta ^a   Maier, Daniel ^a   Gasser, Anna ^a   Doppler, Magdalena ^a   Winkler, Andrea ^b   Dharsee, Jaffer ^c   Schmutzhard, Erich ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c Aga Khan Hospital   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Africa; Spinal cord; Vertebral column pathologies

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CARDIOVASCULAR MALFORMATION; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; GRANULOMATOSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MYELITIS; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROFIBROMA; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL POPULATION; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD LESION; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE METASTASIS; SYRINGOMYELIA; TANZANIA; TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SPINAL DISEASES; TANZANIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 78249245422     PISSN: 00435325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00508-010-1437-7     Document Type: Article

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