Does this older adult with lower extremity pain have the clinical syndrome of lumbar spinal stenosis?

JAMA

Volumn 304, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 2628-2636

  Suri, Pradeep ^a,b,c   Rainville, James ^a,c   Kalichman, Leonid ^c,d   Katz, Jeffrey N ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

^c NEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUTTOCK; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GAIT; HUMAN; LEG PAIN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SYMPTOM; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

EID: 78650227338     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2010.1833     Document Type: Article

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