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Baastrup disease, also known as “kissing spines syndrome”, is a common but misdiagnosed clinical and radiological disorder of the lumbar spinal column first described in 1933 by the Danish radiologist Christian Ingerslev Baastrup (1885–1950).
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Akhaddar, A. (2023). Baastrup Disease. In: Atlas of Sciatica. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44984-0_84
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