Spine and pelvis with scoliosis
GC.10801
Spine and pelvis with scoliosis
The preparation is the spinal column, except the first four cervical vertebrae, of an adult male, with the pelvis, showing deformity from scoliosis.
There are three curves in the spine, and there is also a slight curve in the cervical vertebrae as it were to bring the head perpendicular to the pelvis. The upper lumbar and lower dorsal vertebrae are altered in their form and also are partiaclly anchylosed. A considerable quantity of new bone growths appear on the centra of the eighth, ninth, tenth and twelfth thoracic and on the second lumbar vertebrae.
A sinistroconcave scoliosis involves the fifth thoracic to the second lumbar vertebrae and entails a compensatory dextroconcave curve of the sixth cervical to the fourth thoracic. In the thoracicolumbar curve there is some rotation of the vertebrae, the spinous processes being deflected towards the left. In the maximum of the scoliosis the seventh to the eleventh thoracic centra are much diminished in vertical depth on the left side, their contiguous margins are irregular and bony overgrowth and masses of new bone are present on the centra of the eighth, ninth, tenth and twelfth thoracic and on the second lumbar vertebrae. (negatives in envelope)
Nineteenth century
