What is a Lumbar Spine X-ray ... most commonly an "antero-posterior" picture is taken where you face the X-ray beam and the spine is shown from the front to the back, and a "lateral" picture where the ...

(HealthDay) -- In patients with lumbarized sacra, a lateral ... with six lumbar vertebrae. Qualitative assessments based on MRI were compared with a sample of patients with normal anatomy treated ...