Lumbar lordosis: A study of angle values and of vertebral bodies and intervertebral discs role;Lordose lombar: Estudo dos valores angulares e da participação dos corpos vertebrais e discos intervertebrais

Acta Ortopedica Brasileira

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 193-198

  Damasceno, Luiz Henrique Fonseca ^a,b   Catarin, Silvio Ricardo Guarnieri ^b   Campos, Antônio Dorival ^b   Defino, Helton Luis Aparecido ^b  

^a Campus Universitário ^*  (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Intervertebral disc; Lordosis; Lumbar vertebrae; Lumbosacral region

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750427825     PISSN: 14137852     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s1413-78522006000400003     Document Type: Article

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