Anatomical description of the ventral and dorsal cervical rootlets in rats: A microsurgical study.
Deivid Ramos Dos SantosNayara Pontes de AraujoRenan Kleber Costa TeixeiraLívia Guerreiro de Barros BentesDante Bernardes GiubileiRosa Helena de Figueiredo ChavesArnaldo Algaranhar GonçalvesEdson Yuzur YasojimaRui Sergio Monteiro de BarrosPublished in: Acta cirurgica brasileira (2022)
This investigation was the first to study cervical rootlets in rats. In 20% of the sample studied, the dorsal root of C1 was absent mainly on the left side. There is a nonlinear numerical increase from C1 to T1 in the rootlets. There is a numerical predominance of cervical fascicles on the left side, confronting several studies related to the functional predominance of right laterality, requiring new studies that correlate these variables.