The role of transitional vertebrae in spondylolysis and spondylolytic spondylolisthesis

Bulletin: Hospital for Joint Diseases

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 161-166

  Kim, Nam Hyun ^a,b   Suk, Kyung Soo ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; PATIENT TREATMENT;

ISTHMIC DEFECTS; MEYERDING'S GRADING; SACRALIZATION; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; SPONDYLOLYSIS; TAILLARD'S METHOD; TRANSLATIONAL VERTEBRAE;

ORTHOPEDICS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; SPONDYLOLYSIS; VERTEBRA BODY;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SACRUM; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; SPONDYLOLYSIS;

EID: 0030667113     PISSN: 00185647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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