Facet joints arthrosis in normal and stenotic lumbar spines

Spine

Volumn 36, Issue 24, 2011, Pages

  Abbas, Janan ^a,d   Hamoud, Kamal ^b   Peleg, Smadar ^a,d   May, Hila ^a   Masharawi, Youssef ^a   Cohen, Haim ^a   Peled, Natan ^c   Hershkovitz, Israel ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Poriya Hospital   (Israel)

^c CARMEL MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d The College of Sakhnin for Teacher Education   (Israel)

Author keywords

CT images; facet joint arthrosis; spinal stenosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACET JOINT ARTHROSIS; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE AND SEX; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINE; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPONDYLOSIS; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

EID: 85027925963     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e318210c889     Document Type: Article

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