Pathogenesis of calcium crystal deposition in the ligamentum flavum correlates with lumbar spinal canal stenosis

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 637-643

  Yayama, Takafumi ^a   Baba, Hisatoshi ^a   Furusawa, Nobuaki ^a   Kobayashi, Shigeru ^a   Uchida, Kenzo ^a   Kokubo, Yasuo ^a   Noriki, Sakon ^a   Imamura, Yoshiaki ^a   Fukuda, Masaru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calcium crystal deposition; Elastic fibre; Ligamentum flavum

Indexed keywords

BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; CALCIUM; CALCIUM PYROPHOSPHATE; CD34 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; PROTEIN S 100; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CARTILAGE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELASTIC FIBER; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGAMENT; LIGAMENT CALCINOSIS; LIGAMENTUM FLAVUM; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE DEGENERATION; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; X RAY MICROANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCINOSIS; CALCIUM PYROPHOSPHATE; CHONDROCALCINOSIS; CHONDROCYTES; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELASTIC TISSUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGAMENTUM FLAVUM; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SPINAL STENOSIS;

EID: 24944517758     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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