The use of lumbar spine magnetic resonance imaging in eastern China: Appropriateness and related factors

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Yu, Liedao ^a   Wang, Xuanwei ^a   Lin, Xiangjin ^a   Wang, Yue ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; KYPHOSIS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCOLIOSIS; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE TUMOR; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; VERY ELDERLY; WALKING DIFFICULTY; YOUNG ADULT; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; PATHOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DISPLACEMENT; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84953775459     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146369     Document Type: Article

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