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Mild (not severe) disc degeneration is implicated in the progression of bilateral L5 spondylolysis to spondylolisthesis

BACKGROUND: Spondylolytic (or lytic) spondylolisthesis is often associated with disc degeneration at the index-level; however, it is not clear if disc degeneration is the cause or the consequence of lytic spondylolisthesis. The main objective of this computed tomography based finite element modellin...

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Autores principales: Ramakrishna, Vivek A. S., Chamoli, Uphar, Viglione, Luke L., Tsafnat, Naomi, Diwan, Ashish D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5879802/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29609581
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-018-2011-0