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Is it painful to be different? Sciatic nerve anatomical variants on MRI and their relationship to piriformis syndrome

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-018-5447-6

Published Online: 2018-04-30

Published Print: 2018-11

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Bartret, Adam L.

Beaulieu, Christopher F.

Lutz, Amelie M.
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Article History

Received: 19 February 2018

Revised: 21 March 2018

Accepted: 23 March 2018

First Online: 30 April 2018

Compliance with ethical standards

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: The scientific guarantors of this publication are Adam Bartret and Amelie Lutz.

: The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies, whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.

: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.

: Written informed consent was waived by the Institutional Review Board.

: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.

: Part of the MR imaging findings of approximately 250 subjects of this cohort (without symptom correlation) have been previously reported in:Varenika V, Lutz AM, Beaulieu CF, Bucknor MD. Detection and prevalence of variant sciatic nerve anatomy in relation to the piriformis muscle on MRI. Skeletal Radiol 2017;46:751–757.

: • retrospective• observational• performed at one institution