Additionally, research on patients with lumbar foraminal stenosis revealed that facet joint hypertrophy ... complexity of spinal conditions. Lastly, research on cervical disc degeneration and ...

The main causes of facet hypertrophy include spinal degeneration, synovial inflammation ... or spinal nerves are affected.

The changes in FJs were evaluated according to the score proposed by Kalichman et al: joint space narrowing, marginal osteophytes, articular process hypertrophy ... we may assume, that facet joints of ...

Ligamentum flavum hypertrophy (LFH) is a condition characterized by the thickening of the ligamentum flavum, a ligament in the spine that can contribute to lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS).

In a recent study published in The Journal of Orthopaedic Research – Spine, a group of researchers investigated the association between gut microbiome dysbiosis and lumbar degenerative ...

While endovascular treatment of those conditions is well‐established, stenting of vertebral artery (VA) compression stenosis due to cervical facet hypertrophy is uncommon. We describe a case of VA ...