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Radiology, Vol 150, 719-722, Copyright © 1984 by Radiological Society of North America

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Lumbar spine: pretest predictability of CT findings

DJ Giles, RJ Thomas, AG Osborn, PD Clayton, MH Miller, AL Bahr, PR Frederick, GD O'Connor and D Ostler

Demographic and symptomatic data gathered from 460 patients referred for lumbosacral CT examinations were analyzed to determine if the prescan probability of normal or abnormal findings could be predicted accurately. We were unable to predict the presence of herniated disk on the basis of patient-supplied data alone. Age was the single most significant predictor of an abnormality and was sharply related to degenerative disease and spinal stenosis.




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