Introducing a New Risk Factor for Lumbar Disc Herniation in Females : Vertical Angle of the Sacral Curvature

OBJECTIVE: To characterize the importance of the vertical angle of the sacral curvature (VASC) in lumbar disc herniations. METHODS: Morphological data derived from lumbar sagittal MRI imaging. The statistical significance of the findings are discussed. The angles of 60 female patients with lumbar di...

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Autores principales: Kanat, Ayhan, Yazar, Ugur, Kazdal, Hizir, Sonmez, Osman Fikret
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Neurosurgical Society 2012
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Clinical Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3539078/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23323164
http://dx.doi.org/10.3340/jkns.2012.52.5.447
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author Kanat, Ayhan
Yazar, Ugur
Kazdal, Hizir
Sonmez, Osman Fikret
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description OBJECTIVE: To characterize the importance of the vertical angle of the sacral curvature (VASC) in lumbar disc herniations. METHODS: Morphological data derived from lumbar sagittal MRI imaging. The statistical significance of the findings are discussed. The angles of 60 female patients with lumbar disc herniations (LDH) were compared with the 34 female patients without LDH. RESULTS: 128 of the 185 patients met our inclusion criteria. The vertical angle of sacral curvature is statistically significantly bigger in females with lumbar disc herniations when compared to subjects in control group, 28.32 and 25.4, respectively. (p=0.034<0.05). Same difference was not seen in males. CONCLUSION: The vertical angle of sagittal sacral curvature may be another risk factor in females with lumbar disc herniations.
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spelling pubmed-35390782013-01-15 Introducing a New Risk Factor for Lumbar Disc Herniation in Females : Vertical Angle of the Sacral Curvature Kanat, Ayhan Yazar, Ugur Kazdal, Hizir Sonmez, Osman Fikret J Korean Neurosurg Soc Clinical Article OBJECTIVE: To characterize the importance of the vertical angle of the sacral curvature (VASC) in lumbar disc herniations. METHODS: Morphological data derived from lumbar sagittal MRI imaging. The statistical significance of the findings are discussed. The angles of 60 female patients with lumbar disc herniations (LDH) were compared with the 34 female patients without LDH. RESULTS: 128 of the 185 patients met our inclusion criteria. The vertical angle of sacral curvature is statistically significantly bigger in females with lumbar disc herniations when compared to subjects in control group, 28.32 and 25.4, respectively. (p=0.034<0.05). Same difference was not seen in males. CONCLUSION: The vertical angle of sagittal sacral curvature may be another risk factor in females with lumbar disc herniations. The Korean Neurosurgical Society 2012-11 2012-11-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3539078/ /pubmed/23323164 http://dx.doi.org/10.3340/jkns.2012.52.5.447 Text en Copyright © 2012 The Korean Neurosurgical Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Introducing a New Risk Factor for Lumbar Disc Herniation in Females : Vertical Angle of the Sacral Curvature
title_full Introducing a New Risk Factor for Lumbar Disc Herniation in Females : Vertical Angle of the Sacral Curvature
title_fullStr Introducing a New Risk Factor for Lumbar Disc Herniation in Females : Vertical Angle of the Sacral Curvature
title_full_unstemmed Introducing a New Risk Factor for Lumbar Disc Herniation in Females : Vertical Angle of the Sacral Curvature
title_short Introducing a New Risk Factor for Lumbar Disc Herniation in Females : Vertical Angle of the Sacral Curvature
title_sort introducing a new risk factor for lumbar disc herniation in females : vertical angle of the sacral curvature
topic Clinical Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3539078/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23323164
http://dx.doi.org/10.3340/jkns.2012.52.5.447
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