Taiwan
Research Article
Age-Related Incidences of Spondylosis of the Lower Cervical Spine Radiographic Study of 460 Jeju Islanders
Author(s): Myung-Sang Moon, Min-Geun Yoo, Sang-Min Lee, Bong-Keun Park and Dongââ¬âHyeon KimMyung-Sang Moon, Min-Geun Yoo, Sang-Min Lee, Bong-Keun Park and Dong–Hyeon Kim
Study design: Cervical spine radiograms of 460 Jeju islanders, taken at the Cheju Halla General Hospital, Jeju, were the study materials.
Objectives: To investigate the age-matched incidences and severity of the cervical disc degeneration and associated pathologic findings.
Summary of background data: There exist several previous studies on the incidences of disc and Luschka’s and facet joint degeneration in the Europeans and Asians which provided the basic data for the interested clinicians.
Methods: Cervical radiographs of 460 (220 males and 240 females) patients of fourth to ninth decade were subjected to this prospective study. Ninety patients of third decade were excluded because none showed the spondylotic findings on radiograms. There were 76 patients (16.5%) in fourth decade.. Read More»
DOI:
10.4172/2165-7939.1000258
Journal of Spine received 2022 citations as per Google Scholar report