 Lordosis
"Lordosis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The anterior concavity in the curvature of the lumbar and cervical spine as viewed from the side. The term usually refers to abnormally increased curvature (hollow back, saddle back, swayback). It does not include lordosis as normal mating posture in certain animals ( = POSTURE + SEX BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL).
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D008141
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C05.116.900.800.750
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Lordosis" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Lordosis" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Lordosis" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Katsumi R, Mannen EM, Bajaj G, Smith JR, Mears SC, Stambough JB, Barnes CL. The Influence of Knee Osteoarthritis on Spinopelvic Alignment and Global Sagittal Balance. J Knee Surg. 2023 Jul; 36(9):917-924.
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Kim YC, Lenke LG, Bridwell KH, Hyun SJ, You KH, Kim YW, Chang HG, Kelly MP, Koester LA, Blanke KM, Bumpass DB. Results of Revision Surgery for Proximal Junctional Kyphosis Following Posterior Segmental Instrumentation: Minimum 2-Year Postrevision Follow-Up. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2016 Dec 15; 41(24):E1444-E1452.
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