Special Report On Low Back Pain
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چکیده
Low back pain, a human frailty that dates back to antiquity, has generated prodigious revenues and is about to teach a lesson about the changing medical market. I was invited to make a presentation at the ASNR Meeting entitled "Overview of Imaging of Low Back Pain." My initial plans were to extol the virtues of magnetic resonance (MR) and to review the optimal pulse sequences for scanning the lumbar spine. Current events, however, changed my focus because I felt that radiology was facing a "forest and the trees" issue. Radiology has thrived in the trees. It has excelled in a logical, deductive-reasoning milieu which allowed it to concentrate not only on the trees in the forest but, with increasing subspecialization, also on individual leaves. This approach has been successful. It is a productive and a reasonable course of development as long as our basic assumptions about radiology and medicine, that is, the forest, are stable. But is the forest stable?
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