Background: Variations in the number of ribs and vertebrae have been noted in other wise normal looking people with some having supernumerary while others subnumerary. Sternal variations and anomalies though have not been as widely documented. These are two cases with one having a combination of sternal anomalies, supernumerary thoracic vertebrae and ribs and subnumerary lumbar vertebrae while ...

Radiologist always examines X-ray to determine abnormal changes in cervical, lumbar & thoracic vertebrae. Osteophyte (bony growth) may appear at the corners of vertebrae so that vertebral shape becomes abnormal. This paper presents the idea from Image processing techniques such as customised Hough transform which will be used for segmentation which should be independent of rotation, scale, nois...

The German Shepherd is among the breeds most prone to pathologies of lumbosacral spine. aim study was examine how presence spine pathology affects shape lumbar and dimensions individual vertebrae. Mathematical analysis consisted three measurements for each vertebra. Based on analysis, it concluded that there a correlation between height first five vertebrae occurrence transitional vertebra (LTV...

Incidental detection of lumbar Paget's disease by bone densitometry SIR, Bone densitometry of the hip and lumbar spine using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is used to diagnose osteoporosis. We report three patients who were referred for bone densitometry, in whom a diagnosis of Paget's disease was made after the investigation of significantly increased bone mineral density (BMD) of a si...

Direct measurements were made on 2,166 lumbar vertebrae of 433 adult negro and caucasoid skeletons. On statistical analysis, forty-five vertebrae in twenty-seven skeletons were found to be stenotic, the mid-sagittal diameter being the significantly reduced dimension. Whereas spinal stenosis syndromes are rare in South African negroes, the lumbar canal is marginally narrower in the negro. There ...

Lower back pain (LBP) is one of the most common and costly medical problems today [1, 2]. Pain is usually transitory and can arise from the intervertebral discs, bones, ligaments and muscles of the spine. Risk factors for LBP include genetic, environmental, psychosocial and biomechanical influences [3]. However, although 85% of LBP cases have no clear etiology, 97% may be due to musculoskeletal...

BACKGROUND X-ray images of lumbar degenerative diseases often show not only claw osteophytes, but also pairs of osteophytes that form in a direction away from the adjacent disc. We have investigated the direction of the formation of anterior lumbar vertebral osteophytes across the lumbar vertebrae using a sufficient number of lumbar radiographs, because osteophytes images can provide essential ...

OBJECTIVES This article reviews the prevalence of lumbarisation, sacralisation and lumbar ribs, and their morphological relevance by evaluating multi-slice computed tomography (MSCT) images. These segment variations can cause miscounting of vertebrae at the lumbar spinal level. METHODS A retrospective radiographic analysis of 226 cases scanned by MSCT prior to forensic autopsy was undertaken....

Despite the increasing recognition of the functional and clinical importance of lumbar lordosis, little is known about its description, particularly in Egypt. At the same time, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been introduced as a noninvasive diagnostic technique. The aim of this study was to investigate the anatomy of the lumbar lordosis using midsagittal MRIs. Normal lumbar spine MRIs obt...