Quantitative Assessment of Lumbar Facet Joint Degeneration, A Retrospective Study.

Naval Military Medical University (Second Military Medical University)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Facet Joint Pain; Low Back Pain; Facet Joint Disease; Facet Joints; Degeneration ; Deep Learning ;Artificial Intelligence

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: MRI

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06786611

2024455

2024DZXYY- 105 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Observational study

The purpose of this observational study was to understand the quantitative assessment of the degree of degeneration of lumbar facet joints, and to improve the Weishaupt grading system by using gray-scale curve fitting and imaging parameters.

The main questions it aims to answer are: How to realize quantitative analysis of lumbar facet joint degeneration in patients with chronic low back pain with MRI?

The MRI information of patients with different grades of articular process joint degeneration has been statistically summarized in nearly 5 years

Enrollment: 48 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• (1) Age range from 20 to 80 years old; (2) Persisted chronic low back pain (CLBP) more than 12 weeks; (3) Complete preoperative X-ray and 1.5T MRI examination.

Exclusion criteria

• (1) Scoliosis, Cobb angle>20°; (2) Lack of preoperative X-ray or MRI examination; (3) 3.0T MRI; (4) The interval between preoperative X-ray and MRI examinations is more than one month; (5) Previous lumbar spine internal fixation surgery; (6) Lumbar spondylolisthesis > 5 mm, with severe dislocation of facet joints; (7) Intravertebral bone cement implantation; (8) Severe spinal joint disease (e.g. mandatory spondylitis); (9) Spinal tumors; (10) The maximum extension depth of Modic changes (MC) relative to vertebral body height was greater than 25%.

Trial design

48 participants in 1 patient group

facet joint degeneration

Description:

based on the Weishaput grading system, we classified all included patients into the facet joint degeneration group and divided them into four subtypes according to different grades.

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: MRI