Sentence examples for malformed vertebrae from inspiring English sources

Among other abnormalities that are commonly observed in sirenomelia are lumbosacral and pelvic malformations, including sacral agenesis, malformed vertebrae and hemivertebrae (Fig. 1), and corresponding anomalies of the central nervous system (Stocker and Heifetz, 1987; Kallen et al., 1992; Chen et al., 1998; Kjaer et al., 2003).

On imaging, malformed vertebrae can be indistinguishable from acute trauma.

Malformed vertebrae can arise secondary to errors of vertebral formation, fusion and/or segmentation and developmental variation.

Heterozygous mutant mice are born with shortened tails and malformed vertebrae.

The allele responsible for the malformed vertebrae phenotype is recessive (g) (Bray Speth et al., 2010; Dauer et al., 2013).

Some of the wolves have malformed vertebrae, a hereditary condition due to a change a gene (G) that regulates vertebrae formation.

One calf had malformed thoracic vertebrae, cerebellar hypoplasia and multiple renal cysts and was categorised as CVM unaffected based on genotyping.

A CT scan movie showing the skeletal malformations in a 360° view is presented in Additional file 2. Necropsy revealed normally developed cervical and cranial thoracic spinal segments, while the caudal thoracic spine was malformed and lumbar vertebrae were only present as a 7 cm bony structure protruding into the abdomen in a ventral direction.

In addition, the mutant mice showed an abnormal thoracic cage with less ribs, a malformed sternum, and fusion of several vertebrae.

The resulting vertebral column is truncated and irregular with incompletely formed and fused vertebrae; the thoracic cage is malformed and several ribs are fused [17], [18].

CT scanning and radiology revealed normally developed cervical and thoracic vertebrae until T4 while the subsequent thoracic vertebrae were malformed.