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Relationship of Facet Tropism with Degeneration and Stability of Functional Spinal Unit

PURPOSE: The authors investigated the effect of lumbar facet tropism (FT) on intervertebral disc degeneration (DD), facet joint degeneration (FJD), and segmental translational motion. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Using kinetic MRI (KMRI), lumbar FT, which was defined as a difference in symmetry of more th...

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Autores principales: Kong, Min Ho, He, Wubing, Tsai, Yu-Duan, Chen, Nan-Fu, Keorochana, Gun, Do, Duc H., Wang, Jeffrey C.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Yonsei University College of Medicine 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2768235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19881964
http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2009.50.5.624