Magnetic resonance imaging grading of interspinous ligament degeneration of the lumbar spine and its relation to aging, spinal degeneration, and segmental motion: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 494-499

  Keorochana, Gun ^a,b   Taghavi, Cyrus E ^b   Tzeng, Shiau Tzu ^b   Morishita, Yuichiro ^b   Yoo, Jeong Hyun ^b   Lee, Kwang Bok ^b   Liao, Jen Chung ^b   Wang, Jeffrey C ^b  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Degeneration; Interspinous ligament; Lumbar spine; Magnetic resonance imaging; Reliability; Segmental motion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERSPINOUS LIGAMENT DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; JOINT DEGENERATION; JOINT FUNCTION; JOINT MOBILITY; KINEMATICS; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOARTHRITIS; RELIABILITY; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE STABILIZATION; COMPLICATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; KINETICS; LIGAMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL DISEASES; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC; KINETICS; LIGAMENTS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; OSTEOARTHRITIS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

EID: 77957937647     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2010.4.SPINE09515     Document Type: Article

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