Are there cervical spine findings at MR imaging that are specific to acute symptomatic whiplash injury? A prospective controlled study with four experienced blinded readers

Radiology

Volumn 262, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 567-575

  Anderson, Suzanne E ^a   Boesch, Chris ^a   Zimmermann, Heinz ^a   Busato, André ^a   Hodler, Jürg ^b   Bingisser, Roland ^c   Ulbrich, Erika J ^a,d   Nidecker, Andreas ^e   Buitrago Téllez, Carlos H ^f   Bonel, Harald M ^a   Heini, Paul ^a   Schaeren, Stefan ^f   Sturzenegger, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b University Hospital Zurich Institut fur Diagnostische Radiologie   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^e IMAMED Radiologie Nordwest   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MUSCLE INJURY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; WHIPLASH INJURY;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; WHIPLASH INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857377263     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.11102115     Document Type: Article

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