Surgical management and outcome of tuberculous atlantoaxial dislocation: A 15-year experience

Neurosurgery

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 331-339

  Sinha, Sanjiv ^a,c   Singh, Anil Kumar ^a   Gupta, Vikas ^a   Singh, Daljit ^a   Takayasu, Masakazu ^b   Yoshida, Jun ^b   Traynelis, Vincent C ^d   Benzel, Edward C ^d   Sonntag, Volker K H ^d   Iwasaki, Yoshinobu ^d   McCormick, Paul C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Pocket B   (India)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Atlantoaxial dislocation; Craniovertebral junction; Craniovertebral tuberculosis; Posterior fixation; Transcervical retropharyngeal approach; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATLANTOAXIAL DISLOCATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MICROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; TUBERCULOSIS; WIRE FIXATION;

EID: 0037310958     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000043930.28934.FE     Document Type: Article

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