The relationship between degree of facet tropism and amount of dynamic disc bulge in lumbar spine of patients symptomatic for low back pain

Facet tropism has been investigated as a predisposing factor for degenerative changes in the lumbar spine; however, no prior study has evaluated the relationship between disc bulge and facet tropism. In this study, we used kinetic magnetic resonance imaging (kMRI) to investigate the association betw...

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Autores principales: Do, Duc H., Taghavi, Cyrus E., Fong, Winston, Kong, Min Ho, Morishita, Yuichiro, Wang, Jeffrey C.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3036031/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20734211
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00586-010-1558-8