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10089035

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-5-17
pubmed:abstractText
Cervical vertebral columns (214) of adult human skeletons belonging to South African blacks and whites were examined for the presence of osteophytes. It was found that the cervical vertebrae of the black samples were significantly less affected by degenerative changes than in the whites. This finding has specific clinical implications in that the distribution of osteophytosis in the blacks also follows a different pattern than in the whites; osteophytes appear to affect either the vertebral body or apophysial joint facets in the cervical vertebrae of the blacks. In the whites, in sharp contrast, both sites are often affected on the same vertebra, which in life may result in a pincer-like entrapment of the spinal nerve root and/or vertebral artery. Consideration is given to the possible physiological and/or functional causes of the differences in distribution and pattern of development of osteophytes in the cervical spines of the two population groups.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0897-3806
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
12
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
103-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Osteophytosis of the cervical spine in South African blacks and whites.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, Sackler School of Medicine, Ramat Aviv, Israel. taitz@post.tau.ac.il
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article