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Table 5 Comparison of the prevalence of lumbarisation and sacralisation in studies using the same counting method. Vertebral segments were counted from C1 or C2 inferiorly on whole-spine image

From: The prevalence of morphological changes in the thoracolumbar spine on whole-spine computed tomographic images

 

Lumbarisation

Sacralisation

No. of cases

Imaging modality

This study

14 (6.2 %)

6 (2.7 %)

226

Whole spine MSCT

Hahn et al. [2]

9 (4.5 %)

15 (7.5 %)

200

TL and LS sagittal MRI

Peh et al. [15]

9 (7.0 %)

8 (6.2 %)

129

TL and LS sagittal MRI

  1. MSCT multi-slice computed tomography, TL thoracolumber, LS lumbosacral
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