Cervical spine radiograph (checklist)
Updates to Article Attributes
Body
was changed:
The cervical spine checklist is just one of the many pathology checklists that can be used when reporting to ensure that you always actively exclude pathology that is commonly missed; this is particularly helpful in the examination setting, e.g. the FRCR 2B rapid-reporting.
Radiograph
Although superseded by CT in many acute situations, the cervical spine is commonplace in an exam setting will have been primarily performed because of a history of trauma and/ or pain.
Alignment
- craniocervical dissociation
- anterolithesis
- retrolisthesis
- atlantoaxial subluxation (flexion/ extension views)
- facet dislocation
- basilar invagination
Vertebral bodies
- odontoid fracture
-
Jefferson fracture
(Pseudo(pseudo-Jefferson fracture) - hangman fracture
- extension teardrop fracture
- flexion teardrop fracture
- crowned dens
- pathological fracture
- wedge fracture
- ivory vertebrae
Posterior elements
Intervertebral discs/ endplates
- degenerative disc disease
- Modic type 3 endplate changes
- sickle cell disease
- ochronosis
- diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH)
- ankylosing spondylitis - chalk stick fracture
Pre-vertebral soft tissues
Chest
-<a href="/articles/jefferson-fracture">Jefferson fracture</a> <a href="/articles/pseudo-jefferson-fracture">(Pseudo-Jefferson fracture)</a>- +<a href="/articles/jefferson-fracture">Jefferson fracture</a> <a href="/articles/pseudo-jefferson-fracture">(pseudo-Jefferson fracture)</a>
-<a href="/articles/bamboo-spine-ankylosing-spondylitis">ankylosing spondylitis</a> -<a href="/articles/chalk-stick-fracture"> chalk stick fracture</a>- +<a href="/articles/bamboo-spine-ankylosing-spondylitis">ankylosing spondylitis</a> - <a title="Chalk stick fracture" href="/articles/chalk-stick-fracture">chalk stick fracture</a>
-<a href="/articles/rib-fractures">Upper rib</a>/<a href="/articles/clavicular-fracture">clavicle fractures</a>- +<a href="/articles/rib-fractures">upper rib</a>/<a href="/articles/clavicular-fracture">clavicle fractures</a>
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