An Objective and Reliable Method for Identifying Sarcopenia in Lumbar Spine Surgery Patients: Using Morphometric Measurements on Computed Tomography Imaging.

Conclusions: We postulate that a patient with a T-score <-1 for total paravertebral muscle area-to-VB area ratio at the L4 level is the most reliable method of all our measurements that can be used to diagnose a patient undergoing lumbar spine surgery with sarcopenia.
PMID: 32460470 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Asian Spine Journal - May 29, 2020 Category: Orthopaedics Tags: Asian Spine J Source Type: research