PATTERNS OF TOPOGRAPHIC AND ANATOMIC VARIABILITY OF THE SHAPE, ORIENTATION AND SIZE OF THE HOLES OF THE TRANSVERSE PROCESSES OF THE CERVICAL VERTEBRAE

Anisimov Dmitry Igorevich, Postgraduate student, Saratov State Medical University named after V.I.Razumovsky, eaan@mail.ru

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In order to reveal regular occurence of variability in sizes, forms and orientations of cross-section openings of cervical vertebras by a method of osteo - and KT-metrics the authors measured cross-section openings on preparations of cervical vertebras (n = 742), and on KT-and MRT-grams of backbone (n = 146). The article defines age and sexual and bilateral features of sizes, forms and orientations of cross-section openings. Thus, the sizes of cross-section openings prevail at men; the form and orientation of openings changes depending on the level of a vertebra of cervical department of a spine column; for cross-section openings the fluctuating dissym-metry is representative.

cervical vertebras, cross-section openings, variability.