Ligamentum flavum thickness in normal and stenotic lumbar spines

Spine

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1225-1230

  Abbas, Janan ^a   Hamoud, Kamal ^b   Masharawi, Youssef M ^a   May, Hila ^a   Hay, Ori ^a   Medlej, Bahaa ^b   Peled, Natan ^c   Hershkovitz, Israel ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Poriya Hospital   (Israel)

^c CARMEL MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Computerized tomography; Ligamentum flavum thickness; Lumbar spine; Spinal stenosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENDER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGAMENTUM FLAVUM; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THICKNESS; VERTEBRA BODY; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGAMENTUM FLAVUM; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPINAL STENOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77953020040     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181bfca15     Document Type: Article

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