Prevalence of benign osseous lesions of the spine and association with spinal pain in the general population in whole body MRI

• Richard Kasch ,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: kaschr@uni-greifswald.de

  Affiliation Center for Orthopedics, Trauma Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine; Clinic and Outpatient Clinic for Orthopedics and Orthopedic Surgery, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Josephin Scheele,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Center for Orthopedics, Trauma Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine; Clinic and Outpatient Clinic for Orthopedics and Orthopedic Surgery, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6000-4447

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• Mark Hancock,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, Sydney, Australia

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• André Hofer,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Orthopedics, Trauma Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine; Clinic and Outpatient Clinic for Orthopedics and Orthopedic Surgery, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Christopher Maher,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The University of Sydney, Sydney School of Public Health, NSW, Sydney, Australia

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• Robin Bülow,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Diagnostic Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Jörn Lange,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Orthopedics, Trauma Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine; Department of Trauma Surgery, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Andreas Lahm,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliations Center for Orthopedics, Trauma Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine; Clinic and Outpatient Clinic for Orthopedics and Orthopedic Surgery, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany, Kliniken Maria Hilf Mönchengladbach, Academic Teaching Hospital of the RWTH Aachen, Mönchengladbach, Germany

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• Matthias Napp,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Orthopedics, Trauma Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine; Department of Trauma Surgery, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Georgi Wassilew,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Orthopedics, Trauma Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine; Clinic and Outpatient Clinic for Orthopedics and Orthopedic Surgery, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Carsten Oliver Schmidt

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Institute for Community Medicine, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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