Meyerding grading
Trauma and orthopaedics
Also known as: Meyerding classification · Meyerding-Klassifikation (Spondylolisthesis, Wirbelgleiten) · Meyerding sınıflaması (spondilolistezis) · Meyerding grading (spondylolisthesis)
What it is for
Grades the forward slip of a vertebra on the one below on the lateral radiograph, as the slip distance in percent of the anteroposterior length of the lower vertebra's upper endplate.
Classification
| Category | Description |
|---|---|
| Grade I | 0–25% slip. |
| Grade II | 26–50%. |
| Grade III | 51–75%. |
| Grade IV | 76–100%. |
| Grade V | more than 100% (spondyloptosis: the vertebral body has slipped completely off the one below). |
Source
Spondyloptosis
Surg Gynecol Obstet 1932;54:371–377 (Meyerding HW)
- Edition
- Meyerding 1932 (grades I–V as used today)
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