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The Modic Vertebral Endplate and Marrow Changes: Pathologic Significance and Relation to Low Back Pain and Segmental Instability of the Lumbar Spine
  
    	
R. Rahme and R. Moussa

  
    	
American Journal of Neuroradiology May 2008,  29 (5) 838-842; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A0925 

  
  
  



  


  
  



			

		

	
	
 	
	  
  

		
		

			

			  

  
      
  
  

    
  


  
  



  
      
  
  

    

  

    

  
      
  
  

    
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