Abdus Salam, Muhammad Usman Ahmed, Tehseen Ashraf Kohistani.
Radiographic evaluation of cervical spine.
Rawal Med J Jan ;35(2):152-5.

Objective: To determine utility of cervical spine radiograph, clinical notes writing trends, and find out radiograph abnormalities seen. Method: One Thousand cervical spine X-Rays were studied at the department of radiology POF Hospital Wah Cantt from November 1, 2008 to April 25, 2009. Clinical notes provided with x-ray request and abnormalities seen on films were noted. Results: Three major symptoms of patients were neck pain (21%), numbness (4.5%) and brachalgia (1.7%). No significant findings were seen in 48% films. Spondylosis (37 %) cervical rib (3.9%) congenital block vertebra (2%) and Kimmerle anomaly (2%) block vertebra (2%) and Kimmerle anomaly (2%) were the major radiological findings. Conclusions: Neck pain was commonest reason for requesting cervical spine x-ray. Spondylosis was the commonest radiological finding seen in our study. (Rawal Med J 2010;35:152-155).

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