This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Letters to the Editor: Submit a response
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when Letters to the Editor are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow E-mail this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My File Cabinet
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowReprints and Permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by ECKERT, C.
Right arrow Articles by DECKER, A.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by ECKERT, C.
Right arrow Articles by DECKER, A.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Technorati  
What's this?
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 1947;29:447-454.
© 1947 by The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc

PATHOLOGICAL STUDIES OF INTERVERTEBRAL DISCS

CHARLES ECKERT M.D.1 and ALFRED DECKER M.D.1

1 Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine; Barnes Hospital, St. Louis

1. The exanmination of forty lumbosacral intervertebral discs removed from cadavera of different age groups revealed certain changes in the cartilage plate, time annulus fibrosus, and the nucleus pulposus which must be considered physiological, — either the result of repeated minute traumatic episodes or of aging.

2. In comparing the findings in the cadavera with those in 182 intervertebral discs partially removed at operation, it was apparent that the difference was in number rather than kind. The principal changes encountered consisted of extensions of the tissue of the nucleus pulposus into the cartilaginous plate; vascularization of this defect; scarring with vascularization of the annulus fibrosus and nucleus pulposus; and granular degeneration, considered the result of desiccation, in the nucleus pulposus.

3. At the time of operation the disc was described as herniated, bulging, or softened. No significant microscopic differences were found in the three groups.

4. Follow-up studies on the surgical cases show good results in 86.7 per cent. The best results were achieved in those cases in which the disc was described at operation as herniated. No relation appears to exist between microscopic findings and end results.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Technorati Technorati    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 RadiologyHome page
G. Schmid, A. Witteler, R. Willburger, C. Kuhnen, M. Jergas, and O. Koester
Lumbar Disk Herniation: Correlation of Histologic Findings with Marrow Signal Intensity Changes in Vertebral Endplates at MR Imaging
Radiology, May 1, 2004; 231(2): 352 - 358.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 JBJSHome page
S. R. GARFIN, H. N. HERKOWITZ, and S. MIRKOVIC
Instructional Course Lectures, The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons - Spinal Stenosis*{{dagger}}
J. Bone Joint Surg. Am., April 1, 1999; 81(4): 572 - 86.
[Full Text]