Ipsilateral atrophy of paraspinal and psoas muscle in unilateral back pain patients with monosegmental degenerative disc disease

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 84, Issue 1004, 2011, Pages 709-713

  Ploumis, Avraam ^a,b   Michailidis, N ^c   Christodoulou, P ^b   Kalaitzoglou, I ^c   Gouvas, G ^b   Beris, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b 424 General Army Hospital   (Greece)

^c Asklepios Imaging Center   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACK MUSCLE; BACKACHE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARASPINAL MUSCLE ATROPHY; PSOAS MUSCLE; PSOAS MUSCLE ATROPHY;

ADULT; BACK PAIN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PSOAS MUSCLES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960545924     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/58136533     Document Type: Article

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