New method for predicting the lumbar lordosis angle in skeletal material

Anatomical Record

Volumn 290, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1568-1573

  Been, Ella ^a   Pessah, Hayuta ^a   Been, Laurence ^b   Tawil, Arie ^c   Peleg, Smadar ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Spinal Rehabilitation Clinic ^*

^c Spinal Rehabilitation Clinic   (Israel)

Author keywords

Articular process; Spinal curvature; Vertebral spine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPUTATION; ARTHRODESIS; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LORDOSIS; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LORDOSIS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SPINE;

EID: 37049039454     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20607     Document Type: Article

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