Anatomical relationship and positions of the lumbar and sacral segments of the spinal cord according to the vertebral bodies and the spinal roots

Clinical Anatomy

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 227-233

  Canbay, Suat ^a   Gürer, Bora ^a   Bozkurt, Melih ^a   Comert, Ayhan ^b   Izci, Yusuf ^c   Başkaya, Mustafa K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Gulhane Military Medical Acedemy ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

lumbar segment; root; sacral segment; spinal cord; topographical anatomy

Indexed keywords

LUMBAR SEGMENT; ROOT; SACRAL SEGMENT; SPINAL CORD; TOPOGRAPHICAL ANATOMY;

AGED; CADAVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SACRUM; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; SPINAL NERVES;

EID: 84893966656     PISSN: 08973806     EISSN: 10982353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ca.22253     Document Type: Article

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