“This is a dinosaur,” her intern, Malik, muttered, tapping the monitor. “We can’t even measure the angle of the suspected fracture.”
Elara grabbed the phone. “Surgery, this is Rads. I have a positive CTA equivalent on a stat spine. Level one activation. Tear at C4-C5.” carestream imageview
What remained was a single, hairline thread of white—a trickle of contrast media leaking from a torn vertebral artery, hidden behind a perfectly intact transverse process. “This is a dinosaur,” her intern, Malik, muttered,