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block vertebra


  • congenital vertebral fusion
  • location: lumbar or cervical

  • height of the fused vertebral bodies equals the sum of heights of the involved bodies and intervertebral disc
  • "waist" at level of disc space

see: cervical spine fusion


Yong H. Hahn, MD  -  2 February 1995
Last updated:  1 October 2013


 

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