Atlas Vertebra with Centrum a Case Report Seen in Dry Bone

• Author Details:   
• Gokul Krishna Reddy Nune
• Smruti Rekha Mohanty
• Minati Patra
• S. Ch. Mohapatra
• L. P. Tripathy

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The Atlas/1st cervical vertebra doesn’t have a body in the normal circumstances and its body represented by odontoid process of the Axis/2nd cervical vertebra, 1,2,3,4,5 here we present a case report of an atlas vertebra with the odontoid process used to it forming the centrum/body& also the transverse ligament has been ossified, this variation can be congenital/acquired and knowledge of this variation important during cervical spine surgeries, interpretation of skiagrams by radiologists. 1,2,3