Calcium phosphate microcrystal deposition in the human intervertebral disc

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 13-19

  Lee, Robert S ^a,b   Kayser, Mike V ^a   Ali, S Yousuf ^a  

^a ROYAL NATIONAL ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate; Crystal deposition disease; Disc degeneration; Magnesium whitlockite

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; CALCIUM PYROPHOSPHATE;

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; BONE MINERALIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FEMUR HEAD; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LIPID MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE VESICLE; NECROSIS; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCOLIOSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ADULT; AGED; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CALCIUM PHOSPHATES; CALCIUM PYROPHOSPHATE; CHILD; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; JOINT DISEASES; MAGNESIUM; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NECROSIS; SCOLIOSIS; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS;

EID: 33646061357     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2006.00504.x     Document Type: Article

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