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.

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 ...

The first rib is not down in the chest wall as one would think ... The scalenes are important muscles for cervical motion as well as in their reverse function for elevating the first rib for ...