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[Age-related x-ray features of the spine in patients with achondroplasia]
V I Shevtsov1, G V D'iachkova, O S Novikova
1Acad. G. A. Ilizarov Russian Research Center Reparative Orthopedics and Traumatology.
Vestnik Rentgenologii I Radiologii
|March 14, 2000
Abstract:
The paper studies the age-related X-ray features of the spine in patients with achondroplasia. It gives the time course of changes in the shape of vertebrae, the specific features of apophyseal ossification, provides a quantitative account of the shorter caudal lumbar vertebral arch root distance symptom. The time course of changes in the size of the lumbosacral angle was examined. The findings suggest that there are not only considerable static changes in the spine of patients with achondroplasia, but also significant age-related features of vertebral tissue growth and differentiation.