ArticleHeliyon2018
A comparison of statistical associations between oedema in the lumbar fat on MRI, BMI and Back Fat Thickness (BFT).
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Lumbar Disc Degeneration Is Linked to Dorsal Subcutaneous Fat Thickness at the L1-L2 Intervertebral Disc Level Measured by MRI.Tomography (Ann Arbor, Mich.) · 2024Article
- The effect of aspirin on lumbar degeneration: an imaging-based study.Frontiers in surgery · 2024Article
- The origin of lumbar subcutaneous edema: two case reports.Radiology case reports · 2022Article
- When an incidental MRI finding becomes a clinical issue : Posterior lumbar subcutaneous edema in degenerative, inflammatory, and infectious conditions of the lumbar spine.Wiener klinische Wochenschrift · 2020Article
- Quantifying paraspinal muscle tone and stiffness in young adults with chronic low back pain: a reliability study.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Subcutaneous edema on back detected by MRI in hospitalized patients with osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture.Journal of orthopaedicsArticle
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
purposeTo compare the relationship between obesity markers Body Mass Index (BMI) and Back Fat Thickness (BFT) and oedema in the lumbo-sacral subcutaneous adipose tissue. PATIENTS AND
methodsA retrospective study was performed of consecutive Magnetic Resonance Imaging examinations on 149 adults (95 females and 54 males) scanned at 1.5T between October 1 and December 31, 2010. The extent of oedema was graded from 1 to 8 based on the number of involved anatomical segments on the Fat Sat sequence. A vertebra and the disc immediately inferior or any of the upper, middle or lower third of the sacrum was assigned 1 unit. BFT was measured superiorly at the upper border of L1 (BFT L1) and inferiorly at the lower border of L5 (BFT L5) on the T1 weighted image. BMI was computed at the time of the examination. The data were analysed using StatPlus 2009. The association between variables was evaluated using univariate and multivariate regression.
results68 patients (45.6%), 50 females (33.6%) and 18 males (12.0%) were found to have oedema. Weight (
conclusionsObesity markers BMI and BFT L1 are significant independent variables predicting oedema. Oedema is predicted to a variable extent by fat at different sites. The oedema may be, in part, a consequence of obesity.
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