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A Review of Symptomatic Lumbosacral Transitional Vertebrae: Bertolotti’s Syndrome

Kadir Abul
International Journal of Spine Surgery February 2024, 18 (1) 81-82; DOI: https://doi.org/10.14444/8571
Kadir Abul
1 Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Basaksehir Pine and Sakura City Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
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    The image is from Figure 4 of the original article by Jancuska et al.1 The authors give an example of a case with 25 presacral vertebrae from Paik et al’s article,2 which shows a case with 6 lumbar vertebrae after cross-referencing showing the T12-L1 level. It can be clearly seen that the case has 5 presacral lumbar vertebrae and a total of 24 presacral vertebrae.

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    Counting the vertebral levels caudally from C2 reveals this patient to have 24 presacral vertebrae and probably 5 lumbar vertebrae.

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