Structural brain alterations in patients with lumbar disc herniation: A preliminary study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Luchtmann, Michael ^a   Steinecke, Yvonne ^a   Baecke, Sebastian ^a   Lützkendorf, Ralf ^a   Bernarding, Johannes ^a   Kohl, Jana ^a   Jöllenbeck, Boris ^a   Tempelmann, Claus ^a   Ragert, Patrick ^b   Firsching, Raimund ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN STEM; CAPSULA INTERNA; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBELLUM; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; BRAIN; CHRONIC PAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DISPLACEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84896964621     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090816     Document Type: Article

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