title: [Medical imaging and chronic backache].
abstract: The different procedures for imaging the lumbar spine are presented within a general review of chronic low back pain. Plain films still represent the main procedure: they are sufficient for common backache, the most frequent pattern of chronic low back pain. They help in determining further investigations in symptomatic low back pain, due either to spinal or non spinal conditions.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wybier
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Laredo
mesh_terms: D001100:Arachnoiditis / Q000150:complications; D001416:Back Pain / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007405:Intervertebral Disc Displacement / Q000150:complications; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D010003:Osteoarthritis / Q000150:complications; D011859:Radiography; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D013130:Spinal Stenosis / Q000150:complications; D013166:Spondylitis / Q000150:complications
vernacular_title: Imagerie médicale et lombalgie chronique.