Evaluation of Patients with Low Back Pain: A Need for a Standardized Approach (Radiologist's View)

Shigeru Ehara

doi:10.1055/s-2001-15668

Seminars in Musculoskeletal Radiology, Inhaltsverzeichnis

Semin Musculoskelet Radiol 2001; 05(2): 137-138
DOI: 10.1055/s-2001-15668

Low Back Pain

Evaluation of Patients with Low Back Pain: A Need for a Standardized Approach (Radiologist's View)

Shigeru Ehara

Department of Radiology, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan

Abstract

ABSTRACT

MR imaging findings for low back pain (LBP) problems are generally nonspecific, whereas overutilization will possibly become a problem in the society, with an increasing elderly population. Necessity for a standardized imaging approach is emphasized in the following article.

KEYWORD

Low back pain - magnetic resonance imaging - ossification

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