Lumbar Vertebral Endplate Defects on Magnetic Resonance Images: Classification, Distribution Patterns, and Associations with Modic Changes and Disc Degeneration

• Published in: Spine (Philadelphia, Pa. 1976) Vol. 43; no. 13; p. 919
• Main Authors: Feng, Zhiyun, Liu, Yuanhao, Yang, Ge, Battié, Michele C, Wang, Yue
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.07.2018
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Cross-Sectional Studies; Female; Humans; Intervertebral Disc Degeneration - classification; Intervertebral Disc Degeneration - diagnostic imaging; Lumbar Vertebrae - diagnostic imaging; Magnetic Resonance Imaging - classification; Magnetic Resonance Imaging - trends; Male; Middle Aged

A cross-sectional magnetic resonance (MR) imaging study. To classify and characterize endplate defects using routine lumbar MR images and to determine associations of endplate defects with Modic changes (MCs) and disc degeneration. Previously, a cadaveric study revealed that endplate lesions were co...