Letter to the Editor concerning "Classification of endplate lesions in the lumbar spine and association with risk factors, biochemistry, and genetics" by Alessandra Colombini et al. (Eur Spine J; doi: 10.1007/s00586-021-06719-1)

Affiliations

• ¹ Orthopaedic Biotechnology Lab, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, Via R. Galeazzi 4, 20161, Milan, Italy. alessandra.colombini@grupposandonato.it.
• ² LABS - Laboratory of Biological Structures Mechanics, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, Milan, Italy.
• ³ Ortopedia E Traumatologia III, ASST Centro Specialistico Ortopedico Traumatologico Gaetano Pini-CTO, Milan, Italy.
• ⁴ Department of Radiology, Azienda Ospedaliera Cannizzaro, Catania, Italy.
• ⁵ Unità Operativa di Radiologia Diagnostica ed Interventistica, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, Milan, Italy.
• ⁶ Sezione di Scienze Radiologiche, Dipartimento di Biomedicina, Neuroscienze e Diagnostica Avanzata, Università Degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
• ⁷ Italian Society of Medical and Interventional Radiology (SIRM), SIRM Foundation, Milan, Italy.
• ⁸ Department of Biomedical Science for Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
• ⁹ Department of Medicine, University of Udine, Udine, Italy.
• ¹⁰ III Spine Surgery - Scoliosis Department, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, Milan, Italy.