The Widened Interspinous Distance: A Useful Sign of Anterior Cervical Dislocation in the Supine Frontal Projection
- 1 April 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Radiology
- Vol. 123 (1) , 113-116
- https://doi.org/10.1148/123.1.113
Abstract
Anterior dislocation of the cervical spine [in humans] may be detected reliably in the supine frontal projection by evaluating the cervical spinous processes. A widened interspinous distance (ISD) which measures more than 1 1/2 times the ISD above and more than 1 1/2 times the ISD below indicates the presence of an anterior cervical dislocation at the level of abnormal widening. Measurements of the interspinous distances from the C3-C4 interval through the C7-T1 interval in 500 patients with normal cervical spines and in 14 patients with documented anterior cervical dislocations revealed neither false positive nor false negative diagnoses by these criteria.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: