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Fig.#5 demonstrates such an annular tear within a real human cadaver disc. The white arrows demonstrate a full ... Fig.#4 demonstrates the normal lumbar disc anatomy: Here, ... this acts acts as a 'control disc' or normal disc; and ► a grade 3 or 4 radial anular fissure must be demonstrated on CT discography (2,351,352,355).
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www.chirogeek.com/003_IDD-Tutorial.htm
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Rather, our data indicated that annular tears in the lumbar spine can be suggested to have occurred during a specific interval only if MR images obtained at the start of that interval show absence of annular tear.
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www.ajnr.org/cgi/content/full/23/7/1105
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Annular tears of lumbar intervertebral disks are found in ... imaging in identifying annular tears or fissures (2, 7) ...
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www.ajnr.org/cgi/reprint/23/7/1105.pdf
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Basically a tear in a cartilegenous disc in the lumbar spine. A common, painful, hard to cure ailment.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_lumbar_annular_fissur...
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A previous article in this column1 presented the classification of lumbar herniated disc pathoanatomy and symptomatology, ... Interestingly, the term annular fissure has been suggested as preferable to annular tear since the former does not imply a traumatic etiology, as the latter seems to do. Since the term annular tear...
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Key words: discography; tear; pain; somite; Provocative lumbar discography is a diagnostic tool employed by numerous physicians as a presurgical; Side of Symptomatic Annular Tear and Site of Low Back Pain; Is there a Correlation?
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www.kalindra.com/annular_tear.pdf
www.kalindra.com/annular_tear.pdf
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Findings: The lumbar vertebral bodies demonstrate normal height and alignment. There are no discrete bony lesions seen. There is a posterior annular fissure at L4-L5. The L4-L5 intervertebral disks demonstrates normal height but decreased T2 signal consistent with disc dessication.
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Synonyms and related keywords: acute cervical spine injury, annular tear with herniation of the nucleus pulposus, annular tear without herniation of the nucleus pulposus, ... He concluded that the cervical annular fibrosus did not consist of concentric laminae of collagen fibers, as noted in lumbar discs. Rather,
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This is a typical history of a patient with a lumbar disc herniation. The fissure, or tear, of this structure causes tissue damage that generates prostaglandin release and subsequent inflammation.As the disc extrudes past the annular tear, the disc material begins to impinge on the nerve root adjacent to the disc.
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www.spineuniverse.com/1p/ejournal/121201krzeminski_micr...
www.spineuniverse.com/1p/ejournal/121201krzeminski_microdiscectomy.html
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