The importance of the cricoid cartilage as an anatomic land mark of cervical level

Autor: Burcu Ozalp Horsanali, Zeki Tuncel Tekgul, Özgür Esen, Gizem Demir Şenoğlu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Ain Shams Journal of Anesthesiology, Vol 15, Iss 1, Pp 1-6 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2090-925X
DOI: 10.1186/s42077-023-00345-3
Popis: Abstract Background We aimed to evaluate the correlation of the changes radiologically in the vertebral level of the cricoid cartilage according to age and gender to reduce the application difficulties and complication rates in cervical region nerve blockades and surgeries. Results The mean age of all patients included in the study was 56.06 ± 17.22 years. We observed that while the line drawn from the cricoid cartilage to the vertebral column level passed over the C6 transverse process in women, it was below the C6 transverse process in men. A significant difference was also observed between the vertebral corpus level according to gender (p
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