The intervertebral disk in anatomy and pathology
Herget, G.W.; Adler, C.P.
Versicherungsmedizin 52(4): 179-184
2000
ISSN/ISBN: 0933-4548 PMID: 11142103 Document Number: 519232
One of the most frequent and incapacitating medical and social problems of our times is back pain. In most patients the cause of the symptoms remains unknown, although some relevant clues have been discovered over the last few years: mechanical, nutritional, chemical, social, psychological and genetic factors. Pathoanatomic conditions that are generally accepted as related to the symptoms include disc herniation, fracture, infection, spinal stenosis, spondylarthropathy and spondylolisthesis. Diagnostic problems will only be solved by considering and synthesis of all findings.