Anatomy Atlases: Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation: Opus V: Skeletal Systems: Radiographic Images of Some Rib Anomalies

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Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation: Opus V: Skeletal Systems

Radiographic Images of Some Rib Anomalies

Ronald A. Bergman, PhD
Adel K. Afifi, MD, MS
Ryosuke Miyauchi, MD
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1	discontinuity of the first rib
2	bridge formation posteriorly, forked rib anteriorly
3	costal bridge
4	bridge-shaped fusion
5	fusion dorsally
6	suggestion of costal bridging
7	bifurcation suggested
8	Luschka's bifurcated rib

Redrawn from Zimmer, E.A. A. Köhler and E.A. Zimmer Borderlands of the Normal and Early Pathologic in Skeletal Roentgenoloyg, 3rd American Ed., translated and edited by S.P. Wilk. Grune & Stratton, New York, 1968.

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