The association of spinal osteoarthritis with lumbar lordosis

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Papadakis, Michael ^a,b   Papadokostakis, Georgios ^c   Kampanis, Nikos ^b   Sapkas, Georgios ^a   Papadakis, Stamatios A ^d   Katonis, Pavlos ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

^d KAT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LORDOSIS; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPONDYLOSIS; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTHROGRAPHY; BODY POSTURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GREECE; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR; SACRUM; SEX DIFFERENCE; WEIGHT BEARING; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTHROGRAPHY; CAUSALITY; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; LORDOSIS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, SPINE; POSTURE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SACRUM; SEX FACTORS; WEIGHT-BEARING; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

EID: 77954684659     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-11-1     Document Type: Article

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