Management of pediatric congenital atlantoaxial dislocation: A report of 23 cases from Northern India

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 197-208

  Kumar, Raj ^a   Nayak, Suresh Radhakrishna ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Atlantoaxial dislocation; Craniovertebral junction anomalies; Fixed atlantoaxial dislocation; Mobile atlantoaxial dislocation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATLANTOAXIAL DISLOCATION; BONE MALFORMATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INDIA; LIQUORRHEA; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; ODONTOID PROCESS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; REOPERATION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SPINE STABILIZATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ATLANTO-AXIAL JOINT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISLOCATIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRACHEOTOMY;

EID: 0036249426     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000056057     Document Type: Article

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