title: The lumbar vertebral body and diskovertebral junction. Radio MR imaging anatomic correlations.
abstract: Radiographs and MR images of spine specimens provide superb tomographic views of changes that involve the mineralized network and the medullary content of vertebral bodies. By illustrating changes in the balance between bone resorption and formation and between fat and nonfat marrow cells, these frozen images of the reality help us to understand normal variants and lesions that develop in osseous and articular diseases of the lumbar spine.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Cliniques Universitaires St. Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium. vandeberg@rdgn.ucl.ac.be
authors.forename: B C
authors.initials: BC
authors.lastname: vande Berg
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Galant
authors.forename: F E
authors.initials: FE
authors.lastname: Lecouvet
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Maldague
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cosnard
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Malghem
mesh_terms: D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001862:Bone Resorption / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D007403:Intervertebral Disc / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D010012:Osteogenesis; D013122:Spinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D014056:Tomography, X-Ray