KROK 1 2017 – Question 125 · KROK (Medicine) · Human Anatomy

A patient is diagnosed with compression fracture of the lumbar vertebra. The patient presents with acutely increased lumbar lordosis. What ligament was damaged in this patient resulting in such deformation of vertebral column curvature?

  1. A. Interspinal ligament
  2. B. Iliolumbar ligament
  3. C. Yellow ligament
  4. D. Posterior longitudinal ligament
  5. E. Anterior longitudinal ligament
Hint

Ask which spinal ligament normally limits backward bending of the lumbar spine, and on which surface of the vertebral bodies it runs.

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