Topography

Sections pp. 29, 35

Lumbar part of the vertebral column, radiography

Vertebra lumbalis I,

Corpus vertebrae

Costa XII**4

Facies intervertebrales

Os ilium, Crista iliaca

Basis ossis sacri

Promontorium

Os sacrum

Foramina intervertebralia

Arcus vertebrae,

Pediculus arcus vertebrae

Incisura vertebralis inferior

Incisura vertebralis superior

Proc. spinosus

Proc. articularis superior

Proc. articularis inferior

Articulatio zygapophysialis

Crista sacralis mediana

Fig. 771

Lumbar vertebrae, Vertebrae lumbates;

taterat radiograph of the tumbar part of the vertebrat column;

upright position;

the central beam is directed onto the second tumbar vertebra.

In this case, the anterior edges of the tower lumbar vertebrae

are oblique due to pathological alterations.

*

Intervertebral disc space

** Region of the vertebral arch between the superior and inferior

articular processes ("isthmus" = interarticular portion!

***The marks indicate the position of the twelfth rib, which is poorly

visible in this copy of the radiograph.