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[Medical imaging of low back pain]
1Service de radiodiagnostic et radiologie interventionnelle, Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois, Lausanne.
Praxis
|November 20, 2001
Abstract:
The indication for a radiological examination of a patient with low back pain by CT or MRI scans is based on age, medical history and clinical findings. The result of morphological (and possibly structural) tests should be consistent with the clinical findings. In fact, the scans often do not provide very powerful evidence. The elderly patient frequently has permanent deformations or primary or secondary malignant bone lesions and therefore requires special tests.