Do the adjacent level intervertebral discs degenerate after a lumbar spinal fusion?: An experimental study using a rabbit model

Spine

Volumn 35, Issue 22, 2010, Pages

  Higashino, Kosaku ^a,b   Hamasaki, Takahiko ^b   Kim, Jin Hwan ^c   Okada, Motohiro ^b   Yoon, S T ^b,d   Boden, Scott D ^b,d   Hutton, William C ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

adjacent level discs; animal model; disc degeneration; lumbar spinal fusion; rabbit

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAUDA EQUINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LUMBAR DISK; LUMBAR SPINE; NERVE ENDING; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SPINE FUSION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RABBITS; SPINAL FUSION;

EID: 78149250441     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181e504d3     Document Type: Article

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