Surgical management of remote, isolated type II odontoid fractures with atlantoaxial dislocation causing cervical compressive myelopathy

Neurosurgery

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1004-1012

  Kirankumar, Markani V ^a   Behari, Sanjay ^a   Salunke, Pravin ^a   Banerji, Deepu ^a   Chhabra, Devendra K ^a   Jain, Vijendra K ^a  

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

Author keywords

Atlantoaxial stabilization; Cervical fusion; Odontoid fracture

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATLANTOAXIAL DISLOCATION; CERVICOBRACHIAL NEURALGIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NECK PAIN; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; ODONTOID PROCESS FRACTURE; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SCHOOL CHILD; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE FUSION; SPINE STABILIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATLAS; AXIS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; ODONTOID PROCESS; SKULL FRACTURE, BASILAR; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 18244394550     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000158309.38765.FB     Document Type: Article

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