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Long-standing unilateral jumped facets at C3–4 with no apparent history of antecedent trauma

Emergency Radiology volume 9, pages 329–332 (2002)Cite this article

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We report two cases of unilateral jumped facets at C3–4 in reliable historians with no apparent history of neck trauma. Lack of associated morphological abnormalities of the associated disc, adjacent vertebral bodies, and contralateral facet essentially exclude a developmental etiology. Based on the location of the injury and the presence of chronic, osteoarthritic changes we postulate that the jumped facets were due to remote childhood trauma that was forgotten.

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  1. Department of Radiology, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA

    Andrei I. Holodny & Vivek Sharma

  2. Department of Surgery, Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY, USA

    Eugene Rubach

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Holodny, A.I., Sharma, V. & Rubach, E. Long-standing unilateral jumped facets at C3–4 with no apparent history of antecedent trauma. Emergency Radiology 9, 329–332 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10140-002-0253-4

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