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Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 1973;55:1450-1456.
© 1973 by The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc

The Arterial Supply of the Odontoid Process

DAVID C. M. SCHIFF M.D.1 and WESLEY W. PARKE M.S., PH.D.1

1 From the Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia

Cervical spines of human and non-human cadavera were injected with suitable media and studied. The arterial blood supply to the odontoid process forms a constant pattern of three groups of vessels from two sources, the anterior and posterior vessels from the vertebral artery and the cleft perforating vessels from the carotid artery.


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