Mayer HM: Total disc ... Degenerative disk disease: Assessment of changes in vertebral body marrow with MR imaging. Radiology 1988; 166: 193–9. MEDLINE e26. Anderson MW: Lumbar discography ...

Degenerative ... disc disease is extremely rare. Intrigued by this fact and how it might apply to humans, researchers in Toronto, Canada, decided to conduct a gene expression study on ...

Objectives: To observe the prevalence of lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration in elite athletes as compared with published literature of changes seen in non-athletes—that is, normal population.

Plain radiographs can provide useful information regarding intervertebral discs ... might even be considered better for staging of disc degeneration than MRI. [26] The yield of useful findings ...