Facet joint orientation difference between cephalad and caudad portions: A possible cause of degenerative spondylolisthesis

Spine

Volumn 34, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 2259-2262

  Toyone, Tomoaki ^a   Ozawa, Tomoyuki ^a   Kamikawa, Koya ^a   Watanabe, Atsuya ^a   Matsuki, Keisuke ^a   Yamashita, Takeshi ^a   Wada, Yuichi ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY CHIBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOINT; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

AGED; ARTHROGRAPHY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; SPINAL STENOSIS; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

EID: 70349826672     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181b20158     Document Type: Article

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