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Open Mouth Odontoid
Aka: Open Mouth Odontoid
- See Also
- Cross-Table Lateral C-Spine
- C-Spine XRay
- Evaluation: Adequate film criteria
- Entire odontoid and lateral borders of C1-C2 seen
- C1-2 Fractures are very high risk and more common at the extremes of age (very young and old)
- Evaluation: Alignment
- Lateral borders of c1 and c2 Vertebrae should line up
- Vertebral landmarks shifted in on one side
- Should be shifted out on other side
- Evaluation: Bony Margins
- Odontoid should have uninterrupted cortex to C2
- Odontoid view C1 and C2 should line up