Anatomy
Pathology
Hodge Podge
Positioning Lumbar
Positioning Sacrum Coccyx
100

What is the average number of coccygeal segments in an adult coccyx?

What is 4?

100
What is the name of the congenital disease that is present due to an abnormal lateral curvature of the vertebral column?

What is Scoliosis?

100

What is the name of the Scottie dog's neck?

What is pars interarticularis?

100

When you perform an AP projection of the lumbar spine, where do you place the CR?

What is the level of the iliac crest (L4-L5)?

100

Why do you angle the x-ray tube for an axial sacrum?

What is to straighten out the sacrum?

200

What is the name of the most posterior portion of the sacrum?

What is the Medial Sacral Crest?

200

What is the name of the metastases where a bone has an increase in density?

What is Osteoblastic?

200

What is the name of the Scottie dog's eye?

What is the pedicle?

200

When you position a patient for a posterior oblique lumbar, where do you place the CR?

What is 1 to 2 inches above iliac crest and 2 inches medial to the upside ASIS?

200

How do you angle the x-ray tube for an AP Axial Coccyx?

What is 10 degrees caudad?

300

The sacral horns are also known as?

What are the Cornua of the sacrum?

300

When this condition occurs the patient may experience sciatica?

What is Slipped Disk or Herniated Nucleus Pulposus?

300

What is the name of the Scottie dog's front legs?

What is the inferior articular process?

300

When positioning a patient for oblique posterior lumbar images, the patient is AP, what are you looking for on an RPO image?

What are the right Z joints?

300

What is the degree of tube angulation for a lateral sacrum/coccyx?

What is 0?
400

What is the name of the surface that articulates with the ilium to form the SI joints?

What are the Auricular Surfaces?

400

What is the fracture that occurs as a wedge-shaped vertebral fracture that rarely causes a neurologic deficit?

What is a Compression Fracture?

400

The L1-L5 Z joint: what are the classification, mobility type, and movement type?

What are synovial, diarthrodial, and plane (gliding)?

400

The physician would like to see the upper (L1-L2) Z joints. How much do you oblique the patient?

What is 50 degrees from the MSP?

400

What is the tube angle for AP Axial SI joints?

What is 30 to 35 degrees cephalad?

500

What is the name of the sacral section that forms part of the inlet of the true pelvis?

What is the Promontory?

500

This fracture is the result of a hyperflexion force where the fracture is through the vertebral body and posterior elements. The fracture can occur when the patient is seated, wearing a lap-type seat belt and experiences a sudden deceleration?

What is Chance Fracture?

500

The L1-L5 intervertebral joint: what are the classification, mobility type, and movement type?

What are cartilaginous, amphiarthrodial, and symphysis?

500

While imaging a patient for a lateral lumbar you notice that a sponge is not opening the lower intervertebral joint spaces. What do you do?

What is angle the x-ray tube 5 to 8 degrees caudad?

500

When you are imaging posterior SI joints, how much do you angle the patient's body?

What is 25 to 30 degrees?