Veleanu C
Acta Anat (Basel). 1975;92(3):467-80.
Following the investigations carried out on about 350 macerated vertebrae by the dissection of 120 human cadavers, a number of structural pecularities of the cervical vertebrae are described, with special emphasis on their functional and pathogenetic significance. The most specific structures of the cervical vertebrae -- the transverse, unciform, and articular processes, and the vertebral pedicle -- embody from the ontogenetic, the morphofunctional and the pathogenetic point of view, a unity named the uncotransversoarticular complex. The components of this complex delimit the spinal nerve groove, the intervertebral canal and participate in the cervical locking mechanism, in this way contributing to the protection of the vasculonervous formations passing through the cervical spine. The osteovasculonervous relationships at the level of the intervertebral canal, the anatomical variants of the intervertebral canal as well as certain possibilities of the occurrence of a cervical locking deficiency are described.
通过对120具人类尸体进行解剖，对约350块浸软椎骨展开研究后，本文描述了颈椎的一些结构特点，并特别强调了它们的功能和发病机制意义。颈椎最具特异性的结构——横突、钩突、关节突和椎弓根——从个体发生、形态功能和发病机制的角度来看，构成了一个名为钩突横关节复合体的统一体。该复合体的各组成部分界定了脊神经沟、椎间管，并参与颈椎锁定机制，从而有助于保护穿过颈椎的血管神经结构。文中描述了椎间管水平的骨血管神经关系、椎间管的解剖变异以及颈椎锁定缺陷发生的某些可能性。
