Trends and patterns of thoracic intervertebral disc degeneration in symptomatic subjects: a magnetic resonance imaging analysis
| Autor: | Mohamed Kamal Mesregah, Jeffrey C. Wang, Carson Gardner, Sidney Roberts, Kishan Patel, Michael Repajic, Zorica Buser |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
musculoskeletal diseases
030222 orthopedics medicine.medical_specialty medicine.diagnostic_test Thoracic spine business.industry Magnetic resonance imaging Intervertebral disc Degeneration (medical) musculoskeletal system medicine.disease Degenerative disc disease 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine.anatomical_structure Age groups Disc degeneration medicine Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Surgery Neurosurgery Radiology business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | European Spine Journal. 30:2221-2230 |
| ISSN: | 1432-0932 0940-6719 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00586-021-06895-0 |
| Popis: | This study aimed to analyse the trends and patterns of IVD degeneration in different age groups at each level of the thoracic spine. This cross-sectional MRI study included 1000 symptomatic patients who had undergone upright thoracic spine MRI. A total of 13,000 thoracic IVDs from C7/T1 to T12/L1 were classified into five grades using Pfirrmann classification. Patients were divided according to their ages into five groups (n = 200/group). The severity and pattern of IVD degeneration were analysed in each age group. A predictive model of the severity and pattern of IVD degeneration in each age group was proposed. The total grade of IVD degeneration and the number of degenerated levels increased with increasing age (P |
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