%0 Journal Article
%T Longitud de las ra¨ªces cervicales en resonancia magn¨¦tica: relaci¨®n con la par¨¢lisis postoperatoria de la quinta ra¨ªz cervical
%A Mezzadri
%A Juan Jos¨¦
%A Rimoldi
%A Jaime Jorge
%J Coluna/Columna
%D 2010
%I Sociedade Brasileira de Coluna (SBC)
%R 10.1590/S1808-18512010000100004
%X objective: to determine the length of the c5 root. methods: the cervical spines of 50 patients (29 male and 21 female), between 26 and 68 years old, were studied with magnetic resonance imaging (signa 1.5 t, axial images with 5 mm thickness, tr=850, te=26, fov=200). only patients with cervical and/or arm pain were included. we measured (mm) the length of the right and left, third to seventh cervical roots. a comparison of the average lengths was made with the variance analysis for ¦Á=0.05 significance level and a 95% ci. post-hoc comparisons were made with the bonferroni test. results: it was noted that the side (right or left) and gender (male or female) had no influence on the roots' length differences (p>0.05). the c5 root had a length significantly different (p<0.05) from the others, but the shorter was c3. conclusion: c5 root is not the shortest.
%K laminectomy
%K spinal cord diseases [surgery]
%K cervical vertebrae [pathology]
%K cervical roots
%K spinal nerve root
%K magnetic resonance imaging.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1808-18512010000100004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en