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Familial Predisposition and Clustering for Juvenile Lumbar Disc Herniation
1 Nov 1992
Abstract excerpt
The siblings and parents of 40 patients (cases) with lumbar disc herniation (aged 18 years or younger) who underwent surgery at the Department of Orthopaedics at Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital between 1976 and 1990 were examined for incidence of lumbar disc herniation. A total of 120 randomly sampled, age- and sex-matched patients (controls) who were hospitalized during the same period due...
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