title: Computed tomography in the evaluation of acute and chronic low back pain syndromes commonly seen.
abstract: The purpose of this article has been to provide the results of a survey of the more common conditions, and their CT findings, causing chronic low back pain. There is an extensive literature on this subject, providing much more detail and discussing less common entities, of which the reader may avail himself.
authors.affiliation: University Hospital, Department of Radiology, St. Louis, MO 63104.
authors.forename: C R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Archer
authors.forename: E E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Awwad
mesh_terms: D001416:Back Pain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D007405:Intervertebral Disc Displacement / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013122:Spinal Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D013128:Spinal Osteophytosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013130:Spinal Stenosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed