MRI Assessment of Lumbar Intervertebral Disc Degeneration with Lumbar Degenerative Disease Using the Pfirrmann Grading Systems

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Yu, Li Peng ^a   Qian, Wen Wu ^b   Yin, Guo Yong ^a   Ren, Yong Xin ^a   Hu, Zhi Yi ^a  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b People's Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR DISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSWESTRY DISABILITY INDEX; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL PATIENT; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84871460125     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048074     Document Type: Article

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