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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">2641</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url">http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2019.11221</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Lumbosacral Transitional Vertebrae - Occurrence and Significance&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Abutaher</surname><given-names>Chowki Parvez</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Avinash</surname><given-names>Patil Rashmi</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>29</day><month>11</month><year>2019</year></pub-date><volume>2)</volume><issue/><fpage>1</fpage><lpage>4</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Aims:&#13;
__ampersandsignbull; To study the occurrence and type of sacralisation of fifth lumbar vertebra&#13;
__ampersandsignbull; To correlate embryological basis of the various types of anomalies in the Lumbosacral vertebrae&#13;
Methodology: 98 adult human sacra were examined in the department of Anatomy of Seth GSMC, Mumbai. Damaged, mutilated and deformed sacra were excluded from the study. The data were collected by naked eye examination, compiled and statistically analysed and compared with other similar studies.&#13;
Results: The sacralisation of the fifth lumbar vertebra and lumbarisation of first sacral vertebra was respectively seen in 18 out of the 98 sacra studied. This is in close relation with the observations from other studies on Indian population.&#13;
Conclusions: Genetic factors play an important role in the embryogenesis of lumbosacral Transitional Vertebrae (LSTV). It is important for the clinicians and surgeons to have knowledge of the existence and incidence of LSTVs while performing various clinical and surgical procedures&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Lumbosacral Transitional Vertebrae (LSTV)</kwd><kwd> Lumbar vertebra</kwd><kwd> Sacrum</kwd><kwd> Sacralisation</kwd><kwd> Lumbarisation</kwd><kwd> Variation</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
