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From: Close association between non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament of the spine

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Sagittal reconstruction CT images of the entire spine in patients with OPLL. (A) A representative case from the localized-OPLL group. A 57-year-old woman without NAFLD (the L/S ratio: 1.41) had OPLL (arrow heads) in the cervical spine. (B) A representative case from the diffuse-OPLL group. A 49-year-old woman with NAFLD (the L/S ratio: 0.94) had multilevel OPLL and OALL of the whole spine (arrow heads) and multilevel OLF and OSIL in the thoracolumbar spine (arrows). NAFLD, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease; OPLL, ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament; OALL, ossification of the anterior longitudinal ligament; OLF, ossification of the ligamentum flavum; OSIL, ossification of the supra/interspinous ligaments.

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