There was fracture of the 4th dorsal vertebra at the transverse processes.

There were the transverse processes with their small holes for the passage of cranial vessels.

These were his first practices since suffering two fractured transverse processes in his back Oct. 27 against the Washington Redskins.

New bone was identified extending from the host transverse processes into the scaffold macropores, and osteointegration scores correlated with successful fusion.

Because the facet joints and transverse processes usually are unaffected, the presence of midline defect does not diminish the efficacy of the technique.