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Phenotype profiling of Modic changes of the lumbar spine and its association with other MRI phenotypes: a large-scale population-based study.
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society - 1 Sept 2015
Määttä Juhani H, Karppinen Jaro I, Luk Keith D K, Cheung Kenneth M C, Samartzis Dino
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BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Modic changes (MC) are associated with low back pain. They represent vertebral endplate and adjacent vertebral marrow changes on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), classified into three types. Because of small sample sizes, patient cohorts, and limited phenotype assessment, the morphology and involvement of MC and their association with other spinal phenotypes remain speculative. PURPOSE: We...
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