Spine Flashcards
Brain FLAIR
CSF- Dark
Grey matter- grey
White matter- Darker
T2 Brain
CSF - Bright
Grey Matter - Grey
White Matter- Darker
T1 Brain
CSF - Dark
Grey Matter - Grey
White Matter - White
Anterior Longitudinal Ligament (ALL)
- C1 - Sacrum
- joining vertebral bodies & intervertebral disks anteriorly and laterally
- limits extension
Only ligament in spine that limits extension
Anterior Longitudinal Ligament
Posterior Longitudinal Ligament (PLL)
- Within vertebral canal
- dorsal border of vertebral bodies
- attaches to intervertebral disks
- limits hyperflexion
Zygopophyseal Joints
- joints of the vertebral arches
- between superior & inferior articular processes
Ligamenta Falva
- Connects laminae of adjacent vertebral arches
- posterior wall of vertebral canal
Interspinous Ligament
-Connects spinous processes
Supraspinous Ligament
- Posterior to interspinous ligament
- Connects dorsal tips of spinous processes
- C7-Sacrum
- merge superiorly with nuchal ligament
Nuchal ligament
- Foramen magnum- spinous processes of cervical vertebra
- connects inferiorly with supraspinous ligament
Intertransverse ligaments
- Cervical and thoracic
- connects adjacent transverse processes
Anulus Fibrous
Outer ring of concentric fibrocartilage of intervertebral disk
Nucleus Pulposus
innermost gelatinous central portion of intervertebral disk