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Intraoperative Ultrasound in Spinal Surgery
Published on: August 17, 2022
Anatomical variation: T1 spina bifida occulta. Radiological findings
Guglielmo Manenti1, Riccardo Iundusi2, Eliseo Picchi1
1Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Molecular Imaging, Interventional Radiology and Radiation Therapy, Fondazione Policlinico "Tor Vergata", Viale Oxford 81, Rome 00133, Italy.
Abstract:
We report a 26-year-old male patient who was admitted to our emergency department after a traffic accident and who suffered from neck pain. We have found accidentally a dorsal spinous process schisis, a very rare vertebral abnormality, that we recognized in the X-rays imaging performed for the study of the lung parenchyma.
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