Anteriorly situated disc

  • Reference
    • GB 133 VFA.7.37
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1950
  • Physical Description
    • Height: 18.5 cms Width: 20.4 cms 1 object Drawing, carbon dustRoss board Good

Scope and Content

Two drawings side by side of cervical spinal cord revealed at operation. Annotations on the back read "50/10/13/09 Fig23 Mr Tutton Radiol. 10/50 18" and "Cervical disc at 6/7 no swelling of cord patient's name Manchester University". The latter of the two comments has been scribbled out.

This drawing features as fig.18 in the publication H. Davies, R.G. Reid, and G.K. Tutton, 'Discussion on myelography', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1951, 44(10), pp.881-93. The caption in the article offers the following description "Operation sketch of cervical cord in a completely arteriorly situated disc...The cord opposite C6 arched gently backwards and looks paler than the rest. In the smaller picture a diffuse bulge above the roots of C6 is seen".

C5, C6, C7

Labels down the left side of both drawings.

Initialled by the artist in the bottom left.

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