Ellen Optional Quiz

• Fracture from hyperflexion of neck.
• Its an avulsion fracture on the spinous process from C6- to T1

• Collapse of a vertebral body from flxion or axial loading.
• Comes from severe kyphosis

Fracture that extends through the pedicles of C2 with or without sublxation of C2 upon C3.

Occurs from severe hyperextension.

Best seen with lateral projection

This is a comminuted "splintered" fracture resulting from axial loading usually from landing on your head etc.

Anterior and posterior arches of vc1 are fractured and the skull slams onto the ring.

Ap open mouth and lateral shows this best.

fracture of the dens and can extend into lateral masses or arches

best seen with open mouth projection

WHen veterbral body is comminuted with triangular fragments avulsed from the anteroinferior border and fragments from posterior veterbral body displaced into spinal canal.

Pretty much fragments from veterbrae goes into spinal canal causing paralysis

Causes quadriplegia.

Shows up on lateral and AP projection.

• Shows a "bow tie" like artifact on lateral cervical spine image.
• Causes zygophoseal joints to be misaligned from injuries that involve extreme flexion, distraction, and rotation.

Shows vetebral body "jumped" over each other.

When inner part of an interveterbral disk protrudes through the fibrious cartilage outer layer into the spinal canal causing severe pain on possible numbness because of them pressing against the spinal cord.

Known as "slip disk"

exagerrated convex curveature of thorasic spine.

Exaggerated concave lumbar curvature.

abnormal or exaggerated lateral curvature of the spine.

Common between ages 10-14.

Degeneratin of joint.

Loss of bone mass.

Severe kyphosis and scoliosis at the same time.

inflamation of the vertebrae

• Affecting maels between 20-40
• Causes pain and sitffness that results from inflammation of sacroillicc, intervetbral, adn cosoveterbral joints as well as paraspinal calcification

Causes union of vetebral joints from ossofication and ankylosis.

Vetebra takes on a charctersitic of the adjacent region of the spine.