Open AccessPossibilities of systemic analysis of radiographs of patients with degenerative diseases of the spine
Author(s) -
A. M. Orel
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
vestnik travmatologii i ortopedii imeni n.n. priorova
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2658-6738
pISSN - 0869-8678
DOI - 10.17816/vto104364
Subject(s) - medicine , sacrum , radiography , lumbar spine , spondylolisthesis , kyphosis , vertebra , anatomy , statics , position (finance) , lumbar , spinal curvatures , lumbar vertebrae , orthodontics , radiology , surgery , physics , finance , classical mechanics , economics
The criteria for the evaluation of a separate vertebra statics were distinguished. Those criteria were taken as a principle for systemic analysis of spine radiograms. Structural shape and spatial position disturbances of the separate vertebrae, mobile motor spinal segments as well as the whole spine were reflected in algorythmic description and diagrams. 452 patients, aged 6- 76 years, were examined using that method. Degenerative dystrophic diseases were detected in 79% of patients, statics disturbances in 17-21.9%), different malformations in 0.9-20.4% of cases. On the base of examination data a computer model of normal spine was created and the influence of sacrum position and thoracic kyphosis peculiarities on the level, rate and direction of cervical and lumbar spondylolisthesis was studied.