ISSLS prize winner: Lumbar vertebral endplate lesions: associations with disc degeneration and back pain history

• Published in: Spine (Philadelphia, Pa. 1976) Vol. 37; no. 17; p. 1490
• Main Authors: Wang, Yue, Videman, Tapio, Battié, Michele C
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.08.2012
• Subjects: Adult; Autopsy; Back Pain - etiology; Back Pain - pathology; Humans; Intervertebral Disc Degeneration - etiology; Intervertebral Disc Degeneration - pathology; Lumbar Vertebrae - pathology; Male; Middle Aged; Regression Analysis; Spinal Diseases - complications; Spinal Diseases - pathology; Young Adult

An autopsy study. To investigate associations between various types of lumbar endplate lesions, disc degeneration (DD), and back pain history. The well-innervated vertebral endplate has been suspected as a source of back pain. Previously, we observed 4 types of lumbar endplate lesions with distinct...