Absence of Thoracic Osteophytosis in the Area Adjacent to the Aorta: Computed Tomography Demonstration
- 1 April 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography
- Vol. 2 (2) , 173-175
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00004728-197804000-00009
Abstract
Computed tomography of the chest [human] shows that right-sided unilateral thoracic osteophytosis is a common phenomenon. The cross-sectional images obtained appear to support the thesis that aortic pulsations have a preventive effect on the formation of left-sided osteophytes.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: