People have cervical ribs bilaterally or unilaterally (both sides or on one side). The majority of patients with cervical ribs are nonsymptomatic, that is to say, they do provoke any symptoms.

Those so-called “neck ribs” were likely the result of inbreeding between shrunken populations of the imperiled creatures, of maternal stress brought on by dwindling resources or disease, or both, the ...

One hundred percent of patients with a combination of neurogenic and arterial thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) requiring cervical rib resection had Roos type I and/or II bands. Additional surgical ...

Diagnosis of the cervical rib is simply made by a chest radiograph and cervical spine films. Additionally, the presenting symptoms are usually neurogenic and/or arterial in nature. These patients ...