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Open Mouth Odontoid

Aka: Open Mouth Odontoid

Adequate film criteria
1. Entire odontoid and lateral borders of C1-C2 seen
Alignment
1. Lateral borders of c1 and c2 Vertebrae should line up
2. Vertebral landmarks shifted in on one side
  1. Should be shifted out on other side
Bony Margins
1. Odontoid should have uninterrupted cortex to C2
2. Odontoid view C1 and C2 should line up

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This page was written by Scott Moses, MD, last revised on 10/21/2007 and last published on 2/5/2012.

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