Month: May 2020

Tuberculous Spondylitis also is known as Pott disease, refers to vertebral body osteomyelitis and intervertebral diskitis from tuberculosis (TB). The spine is the most frequent location of musculoskeletal tuberculosis, and commonly related symptoms are back pain and lower limb weakness/paraplegia. Spinal tuberculosis is Read More …

A Retrolisthesis is a posterior displacement of one vertebral body with respect to the subjacent vertebra to a degree less than a luxation (dislocation). Retrolistheses are most easily diagnosed on lateral x-ray views of the spine. Views where care has been taken to expose for a true lateral Read More …

Lumbar degenerative spondylolisthesis/Pars Interarticularis Defect (otherwise referred to as spondylolysis) represents a common cause of axial back pain in adolescents, especially in the case of young athletes. The pars interarticularis (pars) lies between the superior and inferior articular process bilaterally Read More …

Lumbar Spondylolysis and Spondylolisthesis/Pars Interarticularis Defect (otherwise referred to as spondylolysis) represents a common cause of axial back pain in adolescents, especially in the case of young athletes. The pars interarticularis (pars) lies between the superior and inferior articular process Read More …

Pars Interarticularis Defect (otherwise referred to as spondylolysis) represents a common cause of axial back pain in adolescents, especially in the case of young athletes. The pars interarticularis (pars) lies between the superior and inferior articular process bilaterally at each Read More …

Unilateral or Bilateral defect in Pars Interarticularis/Pars Interarticularis Injury refers to a posterior defect in the vertebral body at the pars interarticularis. Usually, this defect is due to trauma or from a chronic repetitive loading and hyperextension. If this instability Read More …

Traumatic Lumbar Locked Facet Syndrome/Traumatic Lumbar Spondylolisthesis also is known as traumatic lumbar locked facet syndrome, is an acute anterior shift of a lumbar vertebral body (L1 – L5) over another. This rare injury arises from complex trauma and high-energy Read More …

Traumatic Lumbar Spondylolisthesis also is known as traumatic lumbar locked facet syndrome, is an acute anterior shift of a lumbar vertebral body (L1 – L5) over another. This rare injury arises from complex trauma and high-energy mechanisms resulting in pathoanatomical Read More …

Pars Interarticularis Injury refers to a posterior defect in the vertebral body at the pars interarticularis. Usually, this defect is due to trauma or from a chronic repetitive loading and hyperextension. If this instability results in the translation of the Read More …