Median (third) occipital condyle causingatlantoaxial instability and myelopathy

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 90-92

  Figueiredo, Nicandro ^a,c   Moraes, Laryssa Brito ^b   Serra, Alexandre ^b   Castelo, Sérgio ^b   Gonsales, Douglas ^b   Medeiros, Roger Rotta ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CUIABÁ   (Brazil)

^c Inst Neurol e da Coluna Vertebral   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ATLANTOAXIAL JOINT; BABINSKI REFLEX; BODY MOVEMENT; BRACE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLONUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EDEMA; HUMAN; HYPESTHESIA; HYPOPLASIA; JOINT INSTABILITY; JOINT SURGERY; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ODONTOID PROCESS FRACTURE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; QUADRIPLEGIA; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRA MALFORMATION;

EID: 42049111231     PISSN: 0004282X     EISSN: 16784227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0004-282X2008000100023     Document Type: Article

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