Prevertebral Soft Tissue Measurements on Lateral Roentgenogram of Cervical Spine in Chinese

中國人頸椎X光檢查基本資料研究

齊龍駒(Long-Jin Chi) ； 王大鈞(Alexander Dah-Jium Wang) ； 陳良光(Liang-Kuang Chen)

《中華放射線醫學雜誌》 27卷4期 (2002/08) Pp. 151-155

摘要

由於我國國情特殊，車禍所造成的人身傷害所佔之比例始終居高不下。其中，頸椎損傷佔有重要比重。因此，頸椎X光檢查就成為急診第一線篩選頸椎損傷之重要工具，尤其是側面頸椎X光片可藉由軟組織厚度來評估是否曾有頸椎損傷。目前側面頸椎X光軟組織厚度標準皆由西方國家訂定之標準比照使用於我國，但是東方人和西方人體格標準明顯有差異，是否會影響側面頸椎X光軟組織厚度標準值得研究。因此作者嘗試收集側面頸椎X光片測其軟組織厚度以便和西方國家訂定之標準做比較分析。

關鍵字

頸椎 ； 頸椎前軟組織厚度

並列摘要

Very few references mentioned about the cervical prevertebral soft tissue density in Asian population.
We examined 150 patients with routine cervical spine radiographic films from January 2000 to July 2000. The prevertebral soft tissue thicknesses were measured from C1
to C7 to measure the preverte-bral soft tissue thickness to compare with the data between the oriental people and western people in normal subjects. The results were recorded for statistical analysis and compared with western population.
131 patients were recorded. We found that there were significant difference noted at C6 prevertebral soft tissue thickness between young (n=106) and old (n=25) aged population (p＜0.01). There was also significant difference between female (n=79) and male(n=52) at C6 prevertebral soft tissue thickness(p＜0.01).
The prevertebral soft tissue thickness was founded statistically thicker in male than female in C6 level. It was also thicker at C6 level in elderly than young ones. There was no difference at other cervical levels. There is no difference between our data and data from western population.

並列關鍵字

Cervical spine ； Prevertebral ； Soft tissue thickness