There are compression fractures of the ninth thoracic through secondlumbarvertebrae.From theCambridge English Corpus
In each of these hospitals,lumbarpunctures are routinely performed on patients with suspected meningitis.From theCambridge English Corpus
Three of these cases presented as mummy torsos with signs of severe spondylitis of thelumbarvertebral bodies and evidence for chronic pleuritis.From theCambridge English Corpus
In the same images, the signal intensity of the skeletal muscle was also calculated using multiple measurements of thelumbar, dorsal and brachial muscles.From theCambridge English Corpus
Minimizinglumbarpunctures and empirical treatments using a diagnostic decision rule, without missing a single case of meningitis, was a dominant strategy to actual practice.From theCambridge English Corpus
There were few significant differences at 6 weeks or 1 year between patients who were referred forlumbarspine x-ray and those who were not.From theCambridge English Corpus
Externallumbardrainage for 72 hours may be the most accurate test to predict response to shunting, but requires hospitalization.From theCambridge English Corpus
Application of the rule would reducelumbarpunctures by 12% and hospitalizations for empirical treatment by 15% with the same diagnostic accuracy as current practice.From theCambridge English Corpus
Ruling out bacterial meningitis early in the diagnostic phase prevents unnecessarylumbarpunctures and hospitalizations for empirical antibiotic treatment.From theCambridge English Corpus
Five of these children underwent a secondlumbarpuncture which was negative bacteriologically.From theCambridge English Corpus
Results of alumbarpuncture test were negative.From theCambridge English Corpus
If diagnostic uncertainty remains, may need to performlumbarpuncture (to help exclude encephalitis or meningitis).From theCambridge English Corpus
Individual differences in susceptibility tolumbarand cervical disc degeneration seem to be explained, primarily, by genetic factors.From theCambridge English Corpus
Increased glutathione levels in neurochemically identified fibre systems in the aged ratlumbarmotor nuclei.From theCambridge English Corpus
Typically, the pain is suprapubic, with radiation to a number of sites including thelumbarand sacral spine, groins and medial aspects of thighs.From theCambridge English Corpus
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