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 CHAPTER 6

 

 ANATOMY OF THE NECK AND SPINE

 D F Graham & A Ritchie

 

 

INDEX

27 The bony anatomy of the vertebral column

 Regions; curves; number; MRI.

28 The structure of the vertebrae

 Central foramen; main common features; discs;  intervertebral foramen; ossification and development; side wings; cervical vertebrae;  articulation; facet or zygapophyseal joints.

29 X-rays of the neck

30 X-rays of the lumbar spine

31 Lumbar and pelvic ligaments and X-rays of the pelvis and sacro-iliac joints

32 Sacroiliac ligaments

33 Anomalies of the vertebrae in the spine

 Hemivertebra;  posterior arch defect; ligament ossification;  transitional vertebrae.

34 Spondylolysis and Spondylolisthesis

35 Anterior and Posterior longitudinal ligaments and ligamenta flava

36 The Facet Joints

37 MRI scans

38 Muscles of the back

 Trapezius; levator scapulae; rhomboid; paraspinal; intermediate; deepest layer.

39 Spinal chord

 The filum terminalemeninges; neurones; axons; nerves and nerve roots;  spinal cord compression;  nerve root compression;  osteophytes.

40 Dermatomes, Myotomes

 

“One must understand the anatomy before one can understand the function”

 Hippocrates