Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging to differentiate degenerative from infectious endplate abnormalities in the lumbar spine

Spine

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Eguchi, Yawara ^a   Ohtori, Seiji ^a   Yamashita, Masaomi ^a   Yamauchi, Kazuyo ^a   Suzuki, Munetaka ^a   Orita, Sumihisa ^a   Kamoda, Hiroto ^a   Arai, Gen ^a   Ishikawa, Tetsuhiro ^a   Miyagi, Masayuki ^a   Ochiai, Nobuyasu ^a   Kishida, Shunji ^a   Masuda, Yoshitada ^b   Ochi, Shigehiro ^b   Kikawa, Takashi ^b   Takaso, Masashi ^c   Aoki, Yasuchika ^d   Inoue, Gen ^a   Toyone, Tomoaki ^e   Takahashi, Kazuhisa ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d CHIBA ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e TEIKYO UNIVERSITY CHIBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

apparent diffusion coeffi cient; diffusion weighted imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging; spinal infection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE ATROPHY; BONE MARROW; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINE; LUMBAR SPINE DEGENERATION; LUMBAR SPINE INFECTION; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; BONE DISEASES, INFECTIOUS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ENDPLATE; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL DISEASES;

EID: 79551536473     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181d5ff05     Document Type: Article

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