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Case reports of seven patients in whom unusual abnormalities caused widening of the cervical intervertebral foramen are presented. Plain roentgenographic and tomographic changes may be quite distinctive, especially in a patient with an absent pedicle or a tortuous vertebral artery. However, angiography has proved to be a useful adjunct to determine the etiology in many of these lesions.
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Fellow in Diagnostic Radiology, supported in part by National Institutes of Health Training Grant GM 01272 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences
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Schimmel, D.H., Newton, T.H. & Mani, J. Widening of the cervical intervertebral foramen. Neuroradiology 12, 3–10 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00344219
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