Consensus conference on core radiological parameters to describe lumbar stenosis - an initiative for structured reporting

European Radiology

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3224-3232

  Andreisek, Gustav ^a   Deyo, Richard A ^b   Jarvik, Jeffrey G ^c   Porchet, Francois ^d   Winklhofer, Sebastian F X ^a   Steurer, Johann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d SCHULTHESS CLINIC   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Low back pain; Lumbar spinal stenosis; Lumbar spine; Magnetic resonance imaging; Structured reporting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUDA EQUINA; DELPHI STUDY; LUMBAR SPINAL STENOSIS; NERVE ROOT; NERVE ROOT COMPRESSION; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; CONSENSUS; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROCEDURES; SPINAL STENOSIS;

CONSENSUS; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCES AS TOPIC; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINAL STENOSIS;

EID: 84911811960     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-014-3346-z     Document Type: Article

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