Author Question: A less than optimal lateral cervical vertebrae projection demonstrates the articular pillars of one ... (Read 59 times)

strangeaffliction · **on:** Jul 17, 2018

A less than optimal lateral cervical vertebrae projection demonstrates the articular pillars of one side of the patient situated anterior to the opposite articular pillars. How was the patient misposi-tioned?

a. The midsagittal plane was not aligned perpendicular to the IR.
b. The acanthiomeatal line was not parallel with the floor.
c. The midcoronal plane was not aligned perpendicular to the IR.
d. The interpupillary line was not perpendicular to the IR.

Question 2

An optimal AP axial cervical vertebrae projection demonstrates all of the following except

a. the spinous processes aligned with the midline of the cervical bodies.
b. open intervertebral disk spaces.
c. each vertebra's spinous process visualized at the level of its superior intervertebral disk space.
d. the third cervical vertebra inferior to the posterior occiput and mandibular men-tum.