indicating a complex interaction between joint structure and spinal health. Additionally, research on patients with lumbar foraminal stenosis revealed that facet joint hypertrophy and tropism were ...

MRI is also an excellent means of assessing the facet joints and ligamenta flava, the ligaments along the medial margin of the facet joints. Degeneration and hypertrophy of the ligamenta flava, which ...

Facet hypertrophy is when the joints that help articulate the spinal column—called facet joints—become enlarged, resulting in ...

One possible explanation to our apparently paradoxical findings could be the decreased lumbar spine instability in patients with advanced facet joint hypertrophy ... on the MRI, which could ...

Ligamentum flavum hypertrophy (LFH) is a condition characterized by the thickening of the ligamentum flavum, a ligament in the spine that can ... that LF thickness on MRI correlated positively ...

Background Even it is accepted among rheumatologists that rheumatoid arthritis (RA) does not involve the facet joints (FJs) of the spine, the issue is still ... articular process hypertrophy, ...

There was no evidence of trauma. She had L4-S1 spinal canal stenosis with disc extrusion and facet hypertrophy on her spine MRI, which was part of her workup in the emergency department. The medical ...