Spine and Pelvis Flashcards
What is this image?
Cervical Spine
Pointing to:
Transverse Foramen
The vertebrae that have holes:
C-1 to C-6
The blood vessel in the C-spine arises:
C-6
The hole in the middle is called:
Vertebral Foraman
What do you not see on this image?
C-1, C-2
What position?
Open Mouth
Representing C2
What is the Fifth line pointing to?
the lateral masses of C1
How many cervical vertebrae do we have?
7
normal: C3-C6
holes: C1-C6
How do we do this?
Upper Occlusal Plane of the upper incisors and the mastoid tip on the same
What should we ask this patient to do?
take in a deep breath and blow the air out, act of expiration drops the shoulders down
What is in red?
Spinous Prominence
What are we seeing on this image best demonstrated?
zygopopyseal joints
Spine has a normal lordotic curvature
CR perpendicular
45 degree oblique C-Spine
LPO
Demonstrates the intervertebral foramen of the UPSIDE (right side)
If the patient is in a RPO or LPO position for the C-Spine angle the tube demonstrates:
15- 20 degrees cephalic
Intervertebral Foramen of the Upside
If the patient is in an RAO or LAO, demonstrating:
15-20 degrees caudad
Intervertebral Foramen of the DOWNSIDE
Flexion or Extension?
Flexion (looking at feet)
Is this cervical, thoracic, or lumbar spine?
Thoracic Vertebrae (facets)
The cervical spine has what type of spinous processes?
Bifid
Which Vertebra is this?
Thoracic
What is this? What is it best demonstrating
Lateral Thoracic Spine
Intervertebral Foramen
What is this?
Scoliosis Study
In the cervical spine AP what position do you do?
LPO and RPO
Abnormal lateral curvature of the spine?
Scoliosis
this person has scoliosis
The girls will get breast exposure what projection should you do this?
PA Projection
If the patient is in an LPO and you are centered 1 inch medial to the upside ASIS what joint does it demonstrate?
Right SI joint
What vertebrae is this?
lumbar
In order to see the SI joints better?
Angle Cephalic 30-35 degrees
If you are doing SI joints what do you do?
Angle Cephalic 30-35 degrees
Two shallow obliques entering 1 inch medial to the UPSIDE ASIS
The second line on the left is the:
pedicle
The third line on the right is the:
Lamina
Failure of the lamina to unite posteriorly
Spina Bifida
What sits on top of the body of the vertebrae?
Intervertebral Disks, Cartilaginous Cushions
The disk of the vertebrae has a center core called the _______ surrounded by the ________.
Nucleus Proposes
Annulus Fibrousis
3
Spinous Process
6
Body
4
Superior Articulating Process
2
Inferior Articulating Process
5
Transverse Process
Perfect Lateral Lumbar
Best demonstrating: Intervertebral Foramen
Forward displacement of one vertebrae over the other
Spondylotisthesus
LPO
Scotty Dogs
IV
the neck (pars anticularis)
V
the eye (pedicle)
IIII
Nose (transverse process)
I
Superior articular process (ear)
II
Lamina (body)
Foot
Inferior articular process
Left Image What is it? What angle?
Sacrum
15 degrees cephalic angle
Right image what is it? Right image what angle?
Coccyx
10 degrees caudad
For both sacrum and coccyx what would you include with it?
lateral (get both on one exposure)
A radiographic examination of the spinal canal:
Myelography
The type of injection into the spinal canal is called:
Intrathecal
The level of the Myelography is:
L3-L4
The location of the needle for a myelography:
subarachnoid space (where the cerebral spinal fluid is produced)
If you start a myelography they might take the patient to:
CT to finish up the study
more than 90 degree angle is called:
obtuse
less than 90 degree angle is called:
acute
Male Pelvis
What image?
Right Hip
Perfectly, the lesser trochanter is not in profile
Rotate the leg 15 degrees internally
Overcome the antiversion of the femoral neck
In red
Greater trochanter
the third line is pointing to:
Head of Femur
The head of the femur sits into the socket called
Acetabulum
Second Line
Acetabulum
The hole is called:
obturator foramen
The obturator foramen is made up of:
Pubic and Ishium
Three bones that make up the acetabulum:
Ilium, Ischium, Pubis
The gold:
ilium
The green
Ichium
The pink
Pubis
How many bones make up the acetabulum?
three
What is the largest foramen in the body?
Obturator Foramen
What study is this?
Hysterosalpinogram
(radiographic examination of the fallopean tubes)
only done in females