Study of Cervical Ribs in Jalalabad, Afghanistan
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Cervical Ribs, age, sex, JalalabadAbstract
Background and Purpose: cervical Ribs are congenital variants that are known to cause thoracic outlet syndrome or brachial plexopathy in up to 10% of the affected individuals. We investigated how often cervical ribs are present on cervical spine radiography to determine the incidence in humans and the percentage of reported cervical ribs.
The objectives of this study were to describe the prevalence of the cervical rib in people of the Eastern Region of Afghanistan Jalalabad, and association with gender and trying to assess any changes in the interim.
Methods: This is a cross-sectional hospital-based study that was conducted at Nangarhar University Teaching Hospital, in Radiology and Anatomy Department Jalalabad, Afghanistan in the period between January first, 2019 to August 2019. The study included a radiologic review of 800 sequential chest radiographs of adults from the Digital database looking for the presence of cervical ribs, 390(48.75%) were male and 410(51.25%) were female.
Results and conclusion: We found 20 (2.5%) persons with cervical rib among 800, 8(40%) male and 12(60%) were female, out of the 5 (25%) left rib, 10(50%) right ribs and 5 (25%) bilateral, statistically There were unilateral predominance. A female to male ratio was 1.5 to 1.
Conclusion: The prevalence of cervical ribs in our population is a little more than that reported in other populations.
Given the potential clinical implication of these anatomic variants, Neuro physician &Radiologist will be more meticulous in Diagnosis cervical ribs when reviewing cervical spine Radiography.
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