The lumbar spine includes the five vertebrae in your lower back numbered L1 to L5. These bones help provide mobility and stability to your back and spinal column and are an attachment point for ...

At age 57, the patient had fractures of all vertebral bodies from T6 to L5 and a threefold elevation of the serum tryptase level. Laboratory findings, skin and bone marrow biopsy fulfilled the ...

Intravenous zoledronate (Reclast) administered once every 5 years reduced the incidence of morphometric vertebral fractures in early postmenopausal women, a randomized trial showed. Over 10 years ...