Computed Tomography- and Radiography-Based Morphometric Analysis of the Lateral Mass of the Subaxial Cervical Spine in the Indian Population

This was a double-blinded cross-sectional study, which obtained no financial support for the research. To obtain a detailed morphometry of the lateral mass of the subaxial cervical spine. The literature offers little data on the dimensions of the lateral mass of the subaxial cervical spine. We assessed axial, sagittal, and coronal computed tomography (CT) cuts and anteroposterior and lateral X-rays of the lateral mass of the subaxial cervical spine of 104 patients (2,080 lateral masses) who presented to a tertiary care public hospital (King Edward Memorial Hospital, Mumbai) in a metropolitan city in India. For a majority of the parameters, males and females significantly differed at all levels (