Agreeing (or not) on how to describe spinal stenosis: Expanding a narrow mindset

Radiology

Volumn 264, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-4

  Friedly, Janna L ^a,b   Jarvik, Jeffrey G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGIST; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

DELPHI TECHNIQUE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; SPINAL STENOSIS;

EID: 84862658564     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.12120861     Document Type: Editorial

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