Other

MORPHOMETRİC CHARACTERISTICS OF HUMAN VERTEBRAL COLUMN WHICH HAS NUMERICAL VARİATİON

  • Mehmet ÇİMEN
  • Haşan ELDEN
  • Sıtkı PERÇİN

J Turk Spinal Surg 2000;11(4):33-37

Recent developments in surgical interventions and increasing popularity of using implants in lovver thoracal and lumbar vertebrae have necessitated more detailed knovvledge of anatomical and morphometric characteristics of these structures. Here we present a 22-year-old male skeleton that has 25 presacral vertebrae (PSV). The sceleton has thoraco-lumbar (TL) vertebrae with a numerical variation of vertebral column, and we discuss morphometric characteristics of his lovver thoracal and lumbar vertebrae.

Keywords: Human vertebral column, Numerical variaton, Vertebral morphometry