Poster Presentation 50th International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine Annual Meeting 2024

Lumbosacral transitional anatomy alters the mobility of the lumbar spine on flexion-extension radiographs (#123)

Anttoni Kuoppala 1 , Juhani Määttä 2 , Jaakko Hanhivaara 1 , Jaakko Niinimäki 1 2 , Mika T Nevalainen 1 2
  1. Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
  2. Research Unit of Health Sciences and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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