PURPOSE To compare stability and subsidence associated with 3 types of cervical spine stabilisation. METHODS The C3 to C4 vertebrae of 28 Polish pigs were used. Pigs with intact vertebrae (group 1) underwent standard anterior cervical discectomy (group 2), followed by stabilisation using a cage alone (group 3), a cage with plate (group 4), or a plate-cage (group 5). Cervical spine stability a...

OBJECTIVE Observation of post treatment kyphotic angle in patient of cervical spine tuberculosis managed non operatively. BACKGROUND The incidence of tuberculosis of cervical spine is about 6-9%. The most dreaded complications of spinal tuberculosis are neural involvement and spinal deformity. Due to destruction of the vertebra tuberculosis of spine usually leads to variable amount of kyphoti...

BACKGROUND CONTEXT Previous research has quantified cervical spine motion with conventional measurement techniques (eg, cadaveric studies, motion capture systems, and fluoroscopy), but these techniques were not designed to accurately measure three-dimensional (3D) dynamic cervical spine motion under in vivo conditions. PURPOSE The purposes of this study were to characterize the accuracy of mo...

Anatomy of the brachial plexus Roots The brachial plexus is most commonly formed by five roots originating from the ventral divisions of spinal nerves C5 through T1. The roots of the plexus are located in the cervical paravertebral space, between the anterior and middle scalene muscles. Besides understanding its origins, it is also important to understand the plexus in terms of the relative sur...

The anatomy of the atlas (first cervical vertebrae, C1) exhibits complex, threedimensional structures, showing extensive variability in morphology from other cervical vertebrae. 1 It is located at critical point close to the vital centers of the medulla oblongata which can get compressed by a dislocation of the atlanto axial complex or instability of the atlanto axial joint. 2 The atlas holds t...

This report addresses the issues involved in developing a robust segmentation technique capable of finding the location and orientation of the cervical vertebrae in x-ray images. This technique should be invariant to rotation, scale, noise, occlusions and shape variability. A customized approach, based on the Generalized Hough transform (GHT), that captures shape variability and exploits shape ...

The spinal column is the central structure in the vertebrate body from which stability, movement, and posture all derive. The vertebrae of the spine are organized into four regions (listed in order from cranial to caudal): cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and pelvic. These regions are classified by their differences in curvature. The human spine usually consists of thirtythree vertebrae, seven of wh...

The spinal column is the central structure in the vertebrate body from which stability, movement, and posture all derive. The vertebrae of the spine are organized into four regions (listed in order from cranial to caudal): cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and pelvic. These regions are classified by their differences in curvature. The human spine usually consists of thirtythree vertebrae, seven of wh...

The spinal column is the central structure in the vertebrate body from which stability, movement, and posture all derive. The vertebrae of the spine are organized into four regions (listed in order from cranial to caudal): cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and pelvic. These regions are classified by their differences in curvature. The human spine usually consists of thirtythree vertebrae, seven of wh...