The intervertebral foramen (also neural foramen) (often abbreviated as IV foramen or IVF) is an opening between (the intervertebral notches of) two pedicles...

radiculopathy (due to compression of exiting spinal nerve by narrowed intervertebral foramen) or myelopathy (due to compression on the spinal cord) can occur...

enlarges the vertebral foramen to increase the size of the nerve pathway. This surgery can be done alone or with a laminotomy. Intervertebral disc annuloplasty...

spinal nerve emerges from the spinal column through an opening (intervertebral foramen) between adjacent vertebrae. This is true for all spinal nerves...

compression of a nerve root usually at the exit foramen or lateral recess. It may be secondary to intervertebral disk herniation (most commonly at C7 and then...

trunk. They then re-enter the intervertebral foramen, and innervate the facet joints, the anulus fibrosus of the intervertebral disc, and the ligaments and...

12th left posterior intercostal artery, enters through the L2-L3 intervertebral foramen to join the anterior spinal artery and supply much of the inferior...

degenerative process. Even small changes to the facet joint can narrow the intervertebral foramen, possibly impinging on the spinal nerve roots within. More advanced...

portion of the head, neck and back. A spinal nerve splits within the intervertebral foramen to form a dorsal ramus and a ventral ramus. The dorsal ramus then...

foramen, a major foramen of the pelvis Interventricular foramen, channels connecting ventricles in the brain Intervertebral foramen, foramina formed between...