Are "patterns" of lumbar disc degeneration associated with low back pain?: New insights based on skipped level disc pathology

Spine

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Cheung, Kenneth M C ^a   Samartzis, Dino ^a   Karppinen, Jaro ^b   Luk, Keith D K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

classifi cation; clinical; degenerative; disc; low back pain; lumbar; nonconsecutive; skipped; symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINESE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTIGUOUS MULTILEVEL INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIPPED LEVEL INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84859355654     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3182304dfc     Document Type: Article

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