Conclusions: Although uncommon, spinal TB still occurs in patients from developed countries, ... The tubercle bacillus begins its destruction in cancellous bone and eventually extends to the cortex.

The crenulations match similar crenulations on the base of the spine and help lock the spine in place. Whether tubercles are perforate ... There may be one primary tubercle to a plate, or several.

A single spine is divisible into three parts, a long shaft, a short neck and a base.The concave articulation surface that attaches onto the mamelon of the tubercle is called the acetabulum, and this ...

it measures the angle between one line through the center of the patella to the anterior superior iliac spine, and a second line through the center of the patella to the tibial tubercle.

The authors found, quite significantly, that those with symptomatic PF lesions had a more posteriorly oriented tibial tubercle, approximately 5 mm more posterior than those with normal PF cartilage.