title: [The role of intravertebral disk protrusion in pathogenesis of lumbosacral radiculopathies in flying personnel].
abstract: The significance of x-ray computer tomography in determining the mechanisms of pathogenesis of lumbar-sacral radiculopathy in patients with protrusions of intervertebral disks of the lumbar-sacral backbone is demonstrated. Pilots with the protrusions (n = 135) and the intervertebral disk herinas (79) have been examined. The clinical course of the sickness was reviewed in both groups of patients. The computer-tomographic semiotics of various protrusions was elaborated and expanded and their clinical implications demonstrated. The fresh paradigm of pathogenesis of radiculopathy at various forms of protrusions is presented. The roentgenomorphologic classification of arthrosis of archiprossesed joints was studied and proposed.
authors.forename: N K
authors.initials: NK
authors.lastname: Vit'ko
mesh_terms: D000337:Aerospace Medicine; D006801:Humans; D007405:Intervertebral Disc Displacement / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008161:Lumbosacral Region / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013026:Space Flight; D013577:Syndrome; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed