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Abstract Background: Isolated thoracolumbar vertebral transverse process fractures (TPF) are often considered a stable injury. However, the use of advanced imaging such as magnetic resonance imaging ...

MRI of the cervical spine showed high grade vertebrostenosis at C7 due to a space-occupying process within the axially and sagittally enlarged vertebrum C7, including the dorsal vertebral arch ...

There is one on each side of every vertebrae in the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine. … A transverse process fracture … usually results from a sudden extreme twisting or side-bending movement.

From the ultrasound images obtained in the region of the articular processes of the joints between the second and third cervical vertebrae (C2-3), between the third and fourth cervical vertebrae (C3-4 ...

" (The transverse process) was a tough one to learn in medical school, but if you think about our spine, it's a bunch of bones that are stacked up, right?" Dr. Kohli said, via MSN.

While a transverse process fracture is technically an injury to the spine, it is not an injury to the spinal cord — the two are nowhere near one another (relatively speaking).