ROENTGENOGRAPHIC CORRELATIONS IN CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS

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Abstract
The authors have reviewed and correlated the plain roentgenograms and myelograms of a series of 54 patients with cervical spondylosis in an effort to clarify the considerable ambiguities which exist concerning the significance of the roentgenographic findings in this disorder. The results were as follows:1. Transverse bars on myelography correlated almost perfectly with posterior interbody spurs on plain roentgenograms. Occasional patients were found to have more significant defects on myelography than on plain roentgenograms, but the reverse situation was not encountered.2. Foraminal encroachment was found to correlate well with the presence of significant posterior interbody spurs. This was felt to support the presumption that foraminal encroachment likely develops as lateral extensions of posterior interbody spurs.3. No reliable degree of correlation was found between various measures of spinal cord widening on myelography, either with measurements of posterior interbody spurs or with severity of trans...

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