The spinal periosteal layer and the fibrous sheath of the cervical spinal canal

Zadeh, J.; Lazorthes, G.; Roux, P.; Laveran, A.

Bulletin de l'Association des Anatomistes 73(220): 45-47

1989


ISSN/ISBN: 0376-6160
PMID: 2765683
Document Number: 333297
At the cervical level, in the foramen, the rachidian nerve is surrounded by two mantles: a dural one and a fibrous one continuing the epidural periosteal sheet of which it is a thickening. We can wonder whether this fibrous sheath is at the origin of some cervical radiculalgias in which one cannot detect any radiological lesion of the skeleton or disk.

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