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Features in keeping with ankylosing spondylitis are demonstrated and characterized by ossification of the spinal ligaments and fusion of the facet joints as well as diffuse skeletal hyperostosis with bridging syndesmophytes and sclerosis of the upper and lower end plates of the examined vertebral bodies.
There is a complete oblique fracture line through the ossified anterior longitudinal ligament at the C6 upper vertebral body that extends posteriorly to the posterior cortex as well as both ankylosed facet joints at this level denoting Chalk stick fracture.
Disrupted alignment of the cervical vertebrae.
Diffuse osteopenic texture.