title: [Age-related x-ray features of the spine in patients with achondroplasia].
abstract: The paper studies the age-related X-ray features of the spine in patients with achondroplasia. It gives the time course of changes in the shape of vertebrae, the specific features of apophyseal ossification, provides a quantitative account of the shorter caudal lumbar vertebral arch root distance symptom. The time course of changes in the size of the lumbosacral angle was examined. The findings suggest that there are not only considerable static changes in the spine of patients with achondroplasia, but also significant age-related features of vertebral tissue growth and differentiation.
authors.affiliation: Acad. G. A. Ilizarov Russian Research Center Reparative Orthopedics and Traumatology.
authors.forename: V I
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Shevtsov
authors.forename: G V
authors.initials: GV
authors.lastname: D'iachkova
authors.forename: O S
authors.initials: OS
authors.lastname: Novikova
mesh_terms: D000130:Achondroplasia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D013131:Spine / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*