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Title: Cervical split: A pseudofracture

Journal Article · · Skelet. Radiol.; (United States)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00361983· OSTI ID:5502677

A horizontal lucent line projecting over a cervical vertebral body on lateral radiographs and simulating a fracture is described. This pseudofracture line results from the lucency between contiguous proliferative osteophytes at the uncinate process/vertebral articulation. Associated disc space narrowing was seen in all of our eleven cases. The origin of this pseudofracture line, cases illustrating this phenomenon, and additional projections helpful for clarification are presented.

OSTI ID:
5502677
Journal Information:
Skelet. Radiol.; (United States), Vol. 7:4
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English