Modic (endplate) changes in the lumbar spine: bone micro-architecture and remodelling

Answer to the Editorial of J. O’Dowd and A. Casey

(2013) Hanne B. Albert   EUROPEAN SPINE JOURNAL

Answer to the letter to the editor of A. Sotto et al. concerning “Antibiotic treatment in patients with chronic low back pain and vertebral bone edema (Modic type 1 changes): a double-blind randomized controlled trial of efficacy” by Albert HB et al., Eur Spine J (2013) 22:697–707

(2013) Hanne B. Albert   EUROPEAN SPINE JOURNAL

Answer to the Letter to the Editor of Benjamin John Floyd Dean et al. entitled “No conflict of interest?” concerning “Antibiotic treatment in patients with chronic low back pain and vertebral bone edema (Modic type 1 changes): a double-blind randomized controlled trial of efficacy” by Albert HB et al., Eur Spine J (2013) 22:697–707

(2013) Hanne B. Albert   EUROPEAN SPINE JOURNAL

Answer to the Letter to the Editor of Benjamin John Floyd Dean entitled “Do these results apply to the ‘intervention naive’ patient?” concerning “Antibiotic treatment in patients with chronic low back pain and vertebral bone edema (Modic type 1 changes): a double-blind randomized controlled trial of efficacy” by Albert HB et al., Eur Spine J (2013) 22:697–707

(2013) Hanne B. Albert   EUROPEAN SPINE JOURNAL

Backache and infection

(2013) Khichar Shubhakaran et al.   EUROPEAN SPINE JOURNAL

Letter to the editor concerning: “Antibiotic treatment in patients with chronic low back pain and vertebral bone edema (Modic type 1 changes): a double-blind randomized controlled trial of efficacy” by Albert HB et al. Eur Spine J (2013) 22:697–707

(2013) Albert Sotto et al.   EUROPEAN SPINE JOURNAL

No conflict of interest?

(2013) Benjamin John Floyd Dean et al.   EUROPEAN SPINE JOURNAL

Do these results apply to the ‘intervention naive’ patient?

(2013) Benjamin John Floyd Dean   EUROPEAN SPINE JOURNAL

Antibiotics a cure for back pain, a false dawn or a new era?

(2013) John O’Dowd et al.   EUROPEAN SPINE JOURNAL

Antibiotic treatment in patients with chronic low back pain and vertebral bone edema (Modic type 1 changes): a double-blind randomized clinical controlled trial of efficacy

(2013) Hanne B. Albert et al.   EUROPEAN SPINE JOURNAL

Failure strength of human vertebrae: Prediction using bone mineral density measured by DXA and bone volume by micro-CT

(2012) Egon Perilli et al.   BONE

Modic changes: prevalence, distribution patterns, and association with age in white men

(2012) Yue Wang et al.   Spine Journal

Modic Vertebral Body Changes

(2011) Michael J. Hutton et al.   SPINE

Correlation of Size and Type of Modic Types 1 and 2 Lesions With Clinical Symptoms

(2011) Eeva Kääpä et al.   SPINE

Bone histomorphometry: Standardization of nomenclature, symbols, and units: Report of the asbmr histomorphometry nomenclature committee

(2010) A. Michael Parfitt et al.   JOURNAL OF BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCH

Guidelines for assessment of bone microstructure in rodents using micro-computed tomography

(2010) Mary L Bouxsein et al.   JOURNAL OF BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCH

Novel Assessment of Subregional Bone Mineral Density Using DXA and pQCT and Subregional Microarchitecture Using Micro-CT in Whole Human Vertebrae: Applications, Methods, and Correspondence Between Technologies

(2010) Andrew M. Briggs et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL DENSITOMETRY

Hierarchical microimaging of bone structure and function

(2009) Ralph Müller   Nature Reviews Rheumatology

Detecting early bone changes using in vivo micro-CT in ovariectomized, zoledronic acid-treated, and sham-operated rats

(2009) E. Perilli et al.   OSTEOPOROSIS INTERNATIONAL

MRI follow-up of subchondral signal abnormalities in a selected group of chronic low back pain patients

(2008) Katariina Luoma et al.   EUROPEAN SPINE JOURNAL

Modic changes: a systematic review of the literature

(2008) Yue-Hui Zhang et al.   EUROPEAN SPINE JOURNAL

Regional variations of vertebral trabecular bone microstructure with age and gender

(2008) H. Chen et al.   OSTEOPOROSIS INTERNATIONAL

Modic changes in vertebral endplates: a comparison of MR imaging and multislice CT

(2008) Mari Kuisma et al.   SKELETAL RADIOLOGY

Modic changes, possible causes and relation to low back pain

(2007) H.B. Albert et al.   MEDICAL HYPOTHESES