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Evaluation of the sagittal spine curvatures in the supine patients

Objective: Providing suggestions for the evaluation of the sagittal spine curvatures in the supine patients because the sagittal spine curvatures are usually analyzed only in the erect patients.Methods:196 patients had their sagittal spine curva-tures analyzed in a retrospective study on both the standard X rays done in the erect position and on the native MR scans done in the supine position during the six months period, between the 1st January and the 30th June 2019, on the So-matom Avanto, Erlangen 1, 5 T machine at the Department of Radiology of the Clinical Hospital Center Rijeka. Harrison’s posterior tangential method was used for the evaluation of the sagittal spine curvatures due to its lesser standard mis-take and a greater measurement precision than the Cobb’s method.Results:In the cervical spines there were no significant changes in the patients with hyperlodoses and kyphoses, lesser changes were seen in the patients with hypolordoses and applanations, while the greatest changes were in the patients with normolordoses. The smallest changes overall were observed in the thoracic spines. Regarding the lum-bar spines there were again no significant changes in the patients with hyperlordoses and kyphoses, lesser changes were seen in the patients with hypolordoses and applana-tions, while the greatest changes were observed in the pa-tients with normolordoses.Conclusion:In the supine patients the sagittal spine cu-rvatures could with a certainty be assessed in the cases of thoracic spines and lumbar normolordoses as well as in the cervical and lumbar hyperlordoses and pathological kyphoses.

X ray ; Magnetic resonance imaging ; Spine

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