Endoscopic image-guided odontoidectomy for decompression of basilar invagination via a standard anterior cervical approach. Technical note

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 184-191

  Wolinsky, Jean Paul ^a,b   Sciubba, Daniel M ^a   Suk, Ian ^a   Gokaslan, Ziya L ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Basilar invagination; Endoscopy; Myelopathy; Odontoidectomy; Transoral approach

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN STEM INJURY; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DENS AXIS RESECTION; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTUBATION; LIQUORRHEA; MALE; NECK PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; ODONTOID PROCESS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRACHEOTOMY; TUBE FEEDING; ATLANTOAXIAL JOINT; BASILAR IMPRESSION; BRAIN DISEASE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; ENDOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION;

ADULT; AGED; ATLANTO-AXIAL JOINT; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN STEM; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; ENDOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODONTOID PROCESS; PLATYBASIA; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33847784140     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/spi.2007.6.2.184     Document Type: Article

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