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Background: Safe posterior cervical spine surgery requires in-depth understanding of the surgical anatomy and common variations. The cervical pedicle attachment site to the vertebral body (VB) affects the location of exiting nerve roots and warrants preoperative evaluation. The relative site of attachment of the cervical pedicle has not been previously described.
Objective: To describe the site of the pedicle attachment to the VB in the subaxial cervical spine.
Methods: Cervical spine computed tomography scans without any structural, degenerative, or traumatic pathology as read by a board-certified neuroradiologist during 2021 were reviewed. Multiplanar reconstructions were created and cross-registered. The pedicle's attachment to the VB was measured relative to the VB height using a novel calculation system.
Results: Fifty computed tomography scans met inclusion criteria yielding 600 total pedicles between C3-T1 (100 per level). The average patient age was 26 ± 5.3 years, and 21/50 (42%) were female. 468/600 (78%) pedicles attached in the cranial third of the VB, 132/600 (22%) attached in the middle third, and 0 attached to the caudal third. The highest prevalence of variant anatomy occurred at C3 (36/100 C3 pedicles; 36%).
Conclusion: In the subaxial cervical spine, pedicles frequently attach to the top third of the VB, but significant variation is observed. The rate of variation is highest at C3 and decreases linearly with caudal progression down the subaxial cervical spine to T1. This is the first report investigating this morphological phenomenon.
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