Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Unilateral hyperplasia of lamina and spinous process of C6 vertebra: case report

  • Anatomic Variations
  • Published:
Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

We report a 20-year-old male patient who was admitted to our emergency clinic after a traffic accident and who suffered from neck pain. Radiographic examination of the cervical spine showed hypertrophy of the left lamina and hypertrophy and elongation of the left spinous process of the sixth cervical vertebra (C6). A computed tomography scan revealed the associated schisis of the spinous process at the same level. Magnetic resonance imaging scan demonstrated no abnormality of the neural elements. The patient underwent a surgical operation due to persistent neck pain and the local aesthetic abnormality.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Bardeleben KV (1896) Handbuch der Anatomie des Menschen. In: Skeletlehre, vol 1, Gustav Fischer, pp 79–83

  2. Das S, Suri R, Kapur V (2005) A duplicated spinous process of the C7 vertebra. Folia Morphol (Warsz) 64(2):115–117

    Google Scholar 

  3. Esposito G, de Bonis P, Tamburrini G, Massimi L, Byvaltsev V, di Rocco C, Leone A (2009) Unilateral hyperplasia of the left posterior arch and associated vertebral schisis at C6 level. Skeletal Radiol 38(12):1191–1195

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  4. Heyer CM, Nicolas V, Peters SA (2007) Unilateral hyperplasia of a cervical spinous process as a rare congenital variant of the spine. Clin Imaging 31(6):434–436

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  5. Hollinshead WH (1964) Back and limbs. In: Anatomy for surgeons, vol 3, Harper and Row, New York

  6. Reinhardt K (1956) An unusual abnormality of the spinal process of the 5th, 6th and 7th cervical vertebrae. Fortschr Geb Rontgenstr Nuklearmed (German) 85(2):253–255

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  7. Resnick D (1984) Hyperostosis and ossification in the cervical spine. Arthritis Rheum 27(5):564–569

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  8. Schaffer AA, Kaplan FS, Tracy MR, O’Brien ML, Dormans JP, Shore EM, Harland RM, Kusumi K (2005) Developmental anomalies of the cervical spine in patients with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva are distinctly different from those in patients with Klippel–Feil syndrome: clues from the BMP signaling pathway. Spine 30(12):1379–1385

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  9. Theodore E Keats (1996) Atlas of normal Roentgen variants that may simulate disease, 6th edn. Mosby, St. Louis

  10. Wiener MD, Martinez S, Forsberg DA (1990) Congenital absence of a cervical spine pedicle: clinical and radiologic findings. Am J Roentgenol 155(5):1037–1041

    CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Conflict of interest

The authors declare that they do not have any conflict of interest.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Neurosurgery Clinic, Ministry of Health, Sevket Yilmaz Education and Research Hospital, Yildirim/Bursa, Turkey

    Burak Kazanci, Utku Adilay & Bulent Guclu

  2. Neurosurgery Department, GATA Military Academy Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

    Ozkan Tehli

Authors
  1. Burak Kazanci
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Ozkan Tehli
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Utku Adilay
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Bulent Guclu
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Bulent Guclu.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Kazanci, B., Tehli, O., Adilay, U. et al. Unilateral hyperplasia of lamina and spinous process of C6 vertebra: case report. Surg Radiol Anat 34, 875–878 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00276-012-0934-y

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00276-012-0934-y

Keywords

Search

Navigation