Skull and Spine

Biparietal foramen are not an uncommon finding on a routine skull radiograph, but occasionally they can become "giant," simulating...

Skaphe (boat) + cephalus (head)   &   Dolikhos (long) + cephalus (head) Scaphocephaly/Dolichocephaly are descriptive terms for a sk...

The vidian canal is a landmark in the skull base that transmits the vidian nerve and vidian artery. The vidian nerve is formed from t...

Although not difficult to detect, the challenge in diffuse skull thickening is suggesting a correct etiology from a wide range of possibilit...

The double transverse foramen in the cervical spine is a normal variant that, according to the literature, occurs most often in the C6 verte...

Lucke (gap) + schadel (skull) The luckenschadel (sometimes called "luckenschadel skull," although this is technically redundant) ...

The vertebral transverse process contains two additional processes of its own.  The more superior (and larger) of the two is called the mam...