The role of back injury or trauma in lumbar disc degeneration: An exposure-discordant twin study

Spine

Volumn 35, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 1925-1929

  Hancock, Mark J ^a   Battie, Michele C ^b   Videman, Tapio ^b   Gibbons, Laura ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

disc degeneration; injury; lumbar spine; magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPINE INJURY;

ADULT; BACK INJURIES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 77958004453     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181d60598     Document Type: Article

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