Degenerative spondylolisthesis is believed to result from chronic intersegmental instability. [8] Degenerative changes of both the facet joints and the intervertebral disk cause the slip ...
Sagittal facet joint orientation is increased in patients with degenerative spondylolisthesis compared with the normal population, decreasing resistance to normal shear forces. The differential ...
Results showed treatment of degenerative spondylolisthesis in agreement with surgeon recommendations to perform decompression with fusion may not be associated with improved outcomes compared with ...
The Guidelines Project, an initiative of the Brazilian Medical Association, aims to combine information from the medical field in order to standardize procedures to assist the reasoning and ...
While spondylosis is a general term for degenerative changes in the spine, spondylolisthesis specifically refers to the displacement of vertebrae. Both conditions may coexist in some cases ...
Spondylolisthesis is most common in older adults, called degenerative spondylolisthesis, when the disks that cushion the spaces between spinal bones break down with aging, increasing the risk of a ...
Lumbar degenerative diseases encompass various conditions, such as lumbar spondylolisthesis, lumbar disc herniation, and lumbar spinal stenosis, which are summarized by the overall state of the lumbar ...
In all these patients we found advanced degenerative changes associated with vacuum phenomena (17%), hypertrophy of the ligamentum flavum (39%), and spondylolisthesis without spondylolysis (33%) (fig ...
Radiographs of the lumbar spine demonstrated degenerative disc disease at L4–L5, with associated anterolisthesis (Fig. 1). Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) confirmed Meyerding grade-1 ...