The lumbar spine, as a critical support structure of the human body, endures external impacts over a long period. Thoracic and lumbar spine fractures account for 75–90% of clinical spinal fracture ...

Can you describe the findings on this CT scan? Test your clinical knowledge using the following example. Post-myelogram CT scan shows impingement caused by facet hypertrophy and the infolding of the ...

This study investigated in vivo the three-dimensional distribution of CT attenuation in the lumbar spine pedicle wall measured in Hounsfield Unit (HU). Seventy-five volunteers underwent clinical ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . No patient younger than the age of 50 years tested positive for osteoporosis. Patients with osteoporosis had an ...

Dr. Isaac Moss, an orthopedic surgeon at UConn Health, can see his patient’s spinal column during surgery without cutting the back open or even having to look at a two-dimensional X-ray on a screen.

Edurne Heredia’s lowest lumbar vertebra was not whole. Rather than being mostly round, it was essentially triangular, according to her surgeon, Dr. Herdeep Singh of UConn Health’s Comprehensive Spine ...