Accessory Articulation of the Cervical Transverse Process: A Very Rare Anatomic Variant

We present a very unusual case of an accessory articulation of the transverse processes of C6 and C7. Only four previous cases have been described in English literature. Our case stresses the importance of computed tomography (CT) and post-processing images to discriminate this variant from posttrau...

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Autores principales: Braspenningx, Stéphanie, Simons, Philip
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ubiquity Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6032763/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30039038
http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jbsr.1348
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description We present a very unusual case of an accessory articulation of the transverse processes of C6 and C7. Only four previous cases have been described in English literature. Our case stresses the importance of computed tomography (CT) and post-processing images to discriminate this variant from posttraumatic or degenerative lesions. Multiplanar reformations and volume-rendered images should be added to the cervical spine CT protocol.
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spelling pubmed-60327632018-07-23 Accessory Articulation of the Cervical Transverse Process: A Very Rare Anatomic Variant Braspenningx, Stéphanie Simons, Philip J Belg Soc Radiol Case Report We present a very unusual case of an accessory articulation of the transverse processes of C6 and C7. Only four previous cases have been described in English literature. Our case stresses the importance of computed tomography (CT) and post-processing images to discriminate this variant from posttraumatic or degenerative lesions. Multiplanar reformations and volume-rendered images should be added to the cervical spine CT protocol. Ubiquity Press 2018-02-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6032763/ /pubmed/30039038 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jbsr.1348 Text en Copyright: © 2018 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Accessory Articulation of the Cervical Transverse Process: A Very Rare Anatomic Variant
title Accessory Articulation of the Cervical Transverse Process: A Very Rare Anatomic Variant
title_full Accessory Articulation of the Cervical Transverse Process: A Very Rare Anatomic Variant
title_fullStr Accessory Articulation of the Cervical Transverse Process: A Very Rare Anatomic Variant
title_full_unstemmed Accessory Articulation of the Cervical Transverse Process: A Very Rare Anatomic Variant
title_short Accessory Articulation of the Cervical Transverse Process: A Very Rare Anatomic Variant
title_sort accessory articulation of the cervical transverse process: a very rare anatomic variant
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6032763/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30039038
http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jbsr.1348
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