Diagnostic Imaging I- Spinal Imaging Anomalies & Variants
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What are the most common locations of block vertebra?
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Lumbar and cervical spine.
What are associations of block vertebrae?
Hemi or absent vertebrae, Klippel-Feil syndrome, VACTERL syndrome.
There is fusion of normal height C4-C5 vertebral bodies with loss of intervertebral disc space; posterior elements are not fused.