X-RAY EVALUATION OF THE CERVICAL SPINE

X-RAY EVALUATION OF THE CERVICAL SPINE

FINDINGS:               I have no current clinical history regarding the patient’s previous surgery and the etiology for this surgery.

There is a posterior fusion with wires surrounding the posterior elements of C5-C6 and C6-C7.

Some disc space narrowing is seen at multiple lower cervical levels, but vertebral body heights appear normally maintained.  Oblique films fail to demonstrate any significant encroachment upon the neuroforamina by posteriorly presenting osteophytes.  The articulation of C1 on C2 is normal.

IMPRESSION:

1.                   Disc space narrowing at multiple lower cervical levels.

2.                   Previous posterior fusion.

3.                   No acute osseous process identified.

Thank you for the referral.

XXXXXXXXX, M.D.