Lumbosacral transitional vertebrae: association with low back pain.

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Published in Radiology on September 05, 2012

Authors

Lorenzo Nardo1, Hamza Alizai, Warapat Virayavanich, Felix Liu, Alexandra Hernandez, John A Lynch, Michael C Nevitt, Charles E McCulloch, Nancy E Lane, Thomas M Link

Author Affiliations

1: Musculoskeletal and Quantitative Imaging Research, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, 185 Berry Street, Suite 350, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. Lorenzo.Nardo@ucsf.edu

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