Is lumbar facet joint tropism developmental or secondary to degeneration? An international, large-scale multicenter study by the AOSpine Asia Pacific Research Collaboration Consortium

BACKGROUND: Facet joint tropism is asymmetry in orientation of the bilateral facets. Some studies have shown that tropism may increase the risk of disc degeneration and herniations, as well as degenerative spondylolisthesis (DS). It remains controversial whether tropism is a pre-existing development...

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Autores principales: Samartzis, Dino, Cheung, Jason Pui Yin, Rajasekaran, Shanmuganathan, Kawaguchi, Yoshiharu, Acharya, Shankar, Kawakami, Mamoru, Satoh, Shigenobu, Chen, Wen-Jer, Park, Chun-Kun, Lee, Chong-Suh, Foocharoen, Thanit, Nagashima, Hideki, Kuh, Sunguk, Zheng, Zhaomin, Condor, Richard, Ito, Manabu, Iwasaki, Motoki, Jeong, Je Hoon, Luk, Keith D. K., Prijambodo, Bambang, Rege, Amol, Jahng, Tae-Ahn, Luo, Zhuojing, Tassanawipas, Warat/Anant, Acharya, Narayana, Pokharel, Rohit, Shen, Yong, Ito, Takui, Zhang, Zhihai, Aithala P., Janardhana, Kumar, Gomatam Vijay, Jabir, Rahyussalim Ahmad, Basu, Saumyajit, Li, Baojun, Moudgil, Vishal, Goss, Ben, Sham, Phoebe, Williams, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
Materias:
Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4888515/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27252985
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13013-016-0062-2

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