TY - JOUR
T1 - Imaging of lumbar intervertebral disk degeneration and aging, excluding disk herniations
AU - Jarvik, Jeffrey G.
AU - Deyo, Richard A.
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported in part Grants HS-08194 and HS-094990 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and Veterans Affairs-ERIC Grant
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - With the advent of CT and MR imaging, physicians have been able to complement their clinical diagnosis of the cause of low back pain with a detailed in vivo image of the structure and soft tissues of the spine. At the same time, there has been an increasing realization that information about morphology alone is not enough to make a definitive diagnosis. Proponents of diskography claim that, through pain provocation, it can provide the specificity missing from the purely morphologic information that CT and MR imaging provide. The specificity of diskography, however, is far from clear.
AB - With the advent of CT and MR imaging, physicians have been able to complement their clinical diagnosis of the cause of low back pain with a detailed in vivo image of the structure and soft tissues of the spine. At the same time, there has been an increasing realization that information about morphology alone is not enough to make a definitive diagnosis. Proponents of diskography claim that, through pain provocation, it can provide the specificity missing from the purely morphologic information that CT and MR imaging provide. The specificity of diskography, however, is far from clear.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0033-8389(08)70005-8
DO - 10.1016/S0033-8389(08)70005-8
M3 - Article
C2 - 11131631
AN - SCOPUS:0033652447
SN - 0033-8389
VL - 38
SP - 1255
EP - 1266
JO - Radiologic Clinics of North America
JF - Radiologic Clinics of North America
IS - 6
M1 - 70005
ER -