Techniques in the treatment of craniovertebral instability

Neurology India

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 525-533

  Goel, Atul ^a   Sharma, Praveen ^a   Dange, Nitin ^a   Kulkarni, Arvind G ^a  

^a KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Atlantoaxial dislocation; Basilar invagination; Syringomyelia; Vertebral artery

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ATLANTOAXIAL DISLOCATION; ATLANTOAXIAL JOINT; ATLANTOOCCIPITAL JOINT; ATLAS; AXIS; BASILAR ARTERY; BONE GRAFT; BONE SCREW; CANCELLOUS BONE; HUMAN; INVAGINATION; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE FUSION; SPINE INSTABILITY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; SYRINGOMYELIA; TORTICOLLIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; VERTEBRA DISLOCATION; VERTEBRAL ARTERIOGRAPHY;

EID: 33645320225     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.22625     Document Type: Review

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