Symptomatology, diagnosis, and surgical treatment of cervical ribs / by W.W. Keen.
- William Williams Keen
- Date:
- 1907
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Symptomatology, diagnosis, and surgical treatment of cervical ribs / by W.W. Keen. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![course, are veiy mucli clearer than the reproductions, excellent as they are. In one child, aged eighteen months, with wryneck, but without rickets, the skiagraph showed (Fig. 18) a marked scoliosis in the cervicodorsal region. “On the convex side there is a fully tleveloped ceivical rib which stands in relation with a supernumerary vertebra. This vertebra is divided into two parts: a large wedge- sha])ed portion, which carries the rib, ami a small I’udiment on tlie Fia. 20.—Scoliosis with cervical ribs. Girl, aged fourteen years. Between the bodies of the first and second dorsal vertebroe is a wedge-shaped supernumerary body, 2a, fused with the bodies of the second and third dorsal vertebras. This rudiment .carries a cervical rib, 1. Several other anomalies of the ribs and the vertebral bodies are to be seen. (Drehmann, Fig. 8.) concave side. On the convex side of the scoliosis the first dorsal vertebra carries two ribs. It is made up of two parts; the upper piece corresponds to the normal vertebra, under which is placed also a wedge-shaped vertebra, which also carries a rib.” It will be observed also that on the right side the twelfth vertebra carries two ribs. In another case, a'boy, aged twelve years, the skiagraph shows “A division of the seventh cervical vertebra, and between it and the first dorsal vertebra a wedge-shaped vertebral rudiment is inter-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22407133_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
