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A metabolic cause of spinal deformity.
Metabolism: clinical and experimental - 1 Jan 2010
Effelsberg Nora M, Hügle Thomas, Walker Ulrich A
Abstract excerpt
A 38-year-old man presented to our clinic with a 6-year history of chronic low back pain. Physical examination showed limited spine mobility; radiographs of the spine demonstrated narrowed disk spaces and calcifications. Lumbar spine magnetic resonance imaging showed Modic type II signal intensity changes in the bone marrow consistent with chronic disk degeneration. The finding of a massively elevated excretion...
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