Direction of the formation of anterior lumbar vertebral osteophytes

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Kasai, Yuichi ^a   Kawakita, Eiji ^a   Sakakibara, Toshihiko ^a   Akeda, Koji ^a   Uchida, Atsumasa ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOPHYTE; PATIENT CODING; SPONDYLOSIS; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; X RAY; DISEASE COURSE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPHYTE; RADIOGRAPHY; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SPINAL OSTEOPHYTOSIS; SPINAL STENOSIS; SPONDYLOSIS;

EID: 60849138824     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-10-4     Document Type: Article

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