Impact of Patient-Reported Symptom Information on Agreement in the MRI Diagnosis of Presumptive Lumbar Spine Pain Generator
René Balza, Sarah Mercaldo, Connie Y. Chang, Ambrose J. Huang, Jad S. Husseini, Arvin Kheterpal, F. Joseph Simeone, William E. Palmer
Abstract
Patient-reported symptom information from a brief questionnaire can be correlated with MRI findings to distinguish presumptive pain generators from incidental abnormalities.
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