Vertebral Forward Slippage in Immature Lumbar Spine Occurs Following Epiphyseal Separation and Its Occurrence Is Unrelated to Disc Degeneration: Is the Pediatric Spondylolisthesis a Physis Stress Fracture of Vertebral Body?

Spine

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 524-527

  Sairyo, Koichi ^a,b   Katoh, Shinsuke ^a   Sakamaki, Tadanori ^a   Inoue, Megumi ^a   Komatsubara, Shinji ^a   Ogawa, Takayuki ^a   Sano, Toshiaki ^a   Goel, Vijay K ^b   Yasui, Natsuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b The University of Toledo   (United States)

Author keywords

Growth plate; Pediatric lumbar spine; Spondylolisthesis; Spondylolysis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; EPIPHYSIS; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; IMMATURITY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LUMBAR SPINE; LUMBAR SPINE SLIPPAGE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; STRESS FRACTURE; VERTEBRA BODY;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CHILD; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPIPHYSES; FEMALE; FRACTURES, STRESS; GROWTH PLATE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS;

EID: 1442336211     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.BRS.0000106492.51581.9B     Document Type: Article

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