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What is spondylolysis?

What is spondylolysis? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (pathology) A defect or stress fracture of the pars interarticularis of the vertebral arch.
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For example, the usual defects associated with a motion segment are either spondylolysis or spondylolisthesis with or without instability.
In an interview with the AP, Dean said he had known since he was in high school that he had an unfused vertebra, a condition called spondylolysis.
Dr. Dean went to an orthopedist, who diagnosed spondylolysis.
Adolescents with spondylolysis or spondylolisthesis experience an exacerbation of lumbosacral pain with spinal extension.
In our patient, the contralateral pedicular stress fracture first occurred in combination with unilateral spondylolysis.
Repair of defects in spondylolysis by segmental pedicular screw hook fixation.

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