12 Natural Course and Prognosis of Intervertebral Disk Diseases Pathoanatomical Changes of the Disk Disease over the Course of Life 306 Intervertebral Disk 308 The Spontaneous Course of Acute…
5 Nondegenerative Disk Diseases Developmental Disturbances 33 Involvement of the Intervertebral Disks Inflammatory and Infectious Disorders 36 in Systemic Illness 37 Tumors 37 Developmental Disturbances Notochord Remnants…
7 Traumatology Etiologies and Types of Spinal Injury, and the Isolated Traumatic Disk Rupture 60 Role of Pre-existing Degenerative Changes 59 Vertebral Body Fracture with Injury of the Sprains…
2 History and Terminology History 3 Terminology 5 History Spinal degenerative changes and intervertebral disk diseases are as old as humanity itself. Skeletal remains from all periods, from the era…
3 Epidemiology Lifetime Prevalence 11 Point and Annual Prevalence 11 Localization and Frequency 11 International Figures 12 Lifetime Prevalence Disk-related complaints, particularly low back pain, are very common. Almost all…
1 Introduction Of all the disorders affecting the intervertebral disks, degenerative conditions are by far the most common, to such an extent that conditions of other causes—neoplastic, infectious/inflammatory, and developmental—are…
