Lumbar disc degeneration: Association between osteophytes, end-plate sclerosis and disc space narrowing

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 330-333

  Pye, Stephen R ^a   Reid, David M ^b   Lunt, Mark ^a   Adams, Judith E ^a   Silman, Alan J ^a   O'Neill, Terence W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; MALE; OSTEOPHYTE; OSTEOSCLEROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; OSTEOARTHRITIS; SCLEROSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL OSTEOPHYTOSIS;

EID: 34147215099     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2006.052522     Document Type: Article

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