Original scientific paper
The Radiological Estimation of Vertebral Body Volumes on the Thoracic and Lumbal Spine: Radiological Estimation of Vertebral Body Volumes
Mirza Bišćević
; epartment of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Clinical Center, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Šejla Bišćević
; Clinical center University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Farid Ljuca
; Medical faculty, University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Azmi Hamzaoglu
; Istanbul Spine Center, Florence Nightingale Hospital, Turkey
Ferid Krupić
; Dept. of Orthopaedics, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Barbara UR Smrke
; Department of Neurosurgery, Clinical Center Ljubljana, Slovenia
Dragica Smrke
; Department of Traumatology, Clinical Center Ljubljana, Slovenia
Abstract
The aim of this work is to radiologicaly estimate the width, height and depth of bodies of thoracic and lumbal vertebras. Charts of one hundred and seventeen patients with implanted internal fixateur on the thoracic and lumbal spine, between 01.01.2008. and 31.3.2010. at the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology - Clinical centre Sarajevo, were retrieved, and only 14 patients, with totally 46 vetrtebras have meet including criteria (clearly visible measured structures on X-ray and CT scans, and data about implants dimensions). Digitalized anteroposterior and laterolateral X ray, and transversal and sagital CT scans were basic inputs for measurement of height, width and depth of the vertebral body - CH, CW, CD. The correction of enlargement on X-ray pictures was performed according to known dimensions of implants and the length scale on CT scans. Enlargement of those parameters, from T1 to L5 spine level was from 60 to 100%, except the stagnation in the mid-thoracic region, and decreasing of corporal depth on the L5 vertebra (CD/L5), in comparison to the fourth vertebra (CD/L4). The clinical importance of this work is in estimation and comparison of dimensions of vertebral bodies measured on X ray and CT scans, as the basic inputs during surgical procedures of vertebroplasty and anterior spondilodesis.
Keywords
spine; vertebra; body; volume; dimensions; vertebroplasty
Hrčak ID:
127553
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Publication date:
30.6.2014.
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