Age-related changes in the orientation of lumbar facet joints

Spine

Volumn 34, Issue 17, 2009, Pages

  Wang, Jixing ^a   Yang, Xianyu ^a  

^a FIRST MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Age; Correlation; Facet joints (zygapophysial joints); Lumbar spine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTHROGRAPHY; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOINT DISEASES; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; SPONDYLOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

EID: 68949130818     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181abbf1e     Document Type: Article

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