Avulsion Fracture of the Anterior Half of the Foramen Magnum Involving the Bilateral Occipital Condyles and the Inferior Clivus: Case Report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 358-361

  Tanabe, Michiharu ^a   Watanabe, Takashi ^a   Matsumoto, Satoshi ^a   Okamoto, Hisayo ^b   Shirakashi, Kazunori ^b  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Takashima Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

clivus; foramen magnum; fracture; occipital condyle; trauma

Indexed keywords

ABDUCENS NERVE PARALYSIS; ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; AVULSION FRACTURE; CASE REPORT; CLIVUS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DYSPHAGIA; FORAMEN MAGNUM; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL BONE; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE STABILIZATION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VAGUS NERVE; WHIPLASH INJURY;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; CRANIAL NERVE INJURIES; FORAMEN MAGNUM; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURES, CLOSED; HUMANS; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033052664     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.39.358     Document Type: Article

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