Prevalence of lumbosacral transitional vertebra among 4816 consecutive patients with low back pain: A computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and plain radiographic study with novel classification schema

Conclusions: LSTV is a fairly common pathology of the lumbosacral junction, occurring in 8.1% of the patients in our series (389 out of 4,816 cases). The most common types were Castellvi's type IIA (30.9%) and IIIA (34.9%) and were O'Driscoll's III (40.1%) and IV (35.8%).

Source: Journal of Craniovertebral Junction and Spine - March 13, 2023 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Vadim A Byvaltsev Andrei A Kalinin Valery V Shepelev Yurii Ya Pestryakov Marat A Aliyev Dmitriy V Hozeev Mikhail Y Biryuchkov Rustem A Kundubayev K Daniel Riew Source Type: research