Atlas Vertebra with Centrum a Case Report Seen in Dry Bone Nune Gokul Krishna Reddy1,*, Mohanty Smruti Rekha2, Patra Minati3, Mohapatra S. Ch.3, Tripathy L. P.3 1PG Student, Dept. of Anatomy, Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India 2Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anatomy, Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India 3Professor, Dept. of Anatomy, Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India *Corresponding Author: Email: gkr.nune@gmail.com
Online published on 18 December, 2015. Abstract The Atlas/1st cervical vertebra doesn't have a body in the normal circumstances and its body represented by odontoid process of the Axis/2nd cervical vertebra, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 here we present a case report of an atlas vertebra with the odontoid process used to it forming the centrum/body& also the transverse ligament has been ossified, this variation can be congenital/acquired and knowledge of this variation important during cervical spine surgeries, interpretation of skiagrams by radiologists.1, 2, 3 Top Keywords Atlas, Axis, Odontoid process, Osodontoideum. Top |