National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
ΤΟ ΕΥΡΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΟΣΦΥΙΚΟΥ ΣΠΟΝΔΥΛΙΚΟΥ ΣΩΛΗΝΟΣ ΣΤΟΥΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΕΣ. ΜΕΤΡΗΣΕΙΣ ΔΙΑ ΤΗΣ Β-ΥΠΕΡΗΧΟΤΟΜΟΓΡΑΦΙΑΣ
Abstract
dc:descriptionTHE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY IS TWOFOLD. FIRST TO EVALUATE THE USE OF ULTRASOUND FOR THE MEASURE OF HUMAN SPINAL CANAL AND SECOND TO FIND STANDARD MEAN VALUES, IN HEALTHY HUMAN ADULTS IN GREEK POPULATION, AND MOST IMPORTANT TO DETERMINE THELOWEST NORMAL DIAMETRES FOR EACH LEVEL, OF THE LUMBAR SPINAL CANAL. TO THIS END WE USED 40 MALES AND 40 FEMALES OF DIFFERENT AGE GROUPS WITH NORMAL SPINES AND MEASURED THE DIAMETRE OF THE SPINAL CANAL IN THE VARIOUS LEVELS FROM L1 TO L5, USING THE METHOD DESCRIBED BY PORTER ET AL. (1978) IN COMPARISON TO OTHER METHODS OF MEASUREMENT, THIS METHOD PROVED TO BE QUITE ACURATE, WHILE IT IS NON INVASIVE AND COSTLESS. THE VALUES WE FOUND FOR THE NORMAL GREEK POPULATION BY THEDESCRIBED METHOD DO NOT DIFFER SIGNIFICANTLY FROM THE VALUES FOUND BY OTHER AUTHORS, USING DIFFERENT METHODS IN OTHER WHITE POPULATION.
Degree
thesis:*- Grantor dc:publisher
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Year dc:date
- 1985
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Πρέβεζας, Νικόλαος
Subjects
dc:subject × 13Rights
- Language dc:language
- gre
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- 10.12681/eadd/0404
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:10442/0404