title: Widening of the cervical intervertebral foramen.
abstract: Case reports of seven patients in whom unusual abnormalities caused widening of the cervical intervertebral foramen are presented. Plain roentgenographic and tomographic changes may be quite distinctive, especially in a patient with an absent pedicle or a tortuous vertebral artery. However, angiography has proved to be a useful adjunct to determine the etiology in many of these lesions.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000783:Aneurysm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D000792:Angiography; D002574:Cervical Vertebrae / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009101:Multiple Myeloma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009455:Neurofibroma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013122:Spinal Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014711:Vertebral Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging