Reducible and irreducible os odontoideum in childhood treated with posterior wiring, instrumentation and fusion. Past or present?

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 151, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1265-1274

  Visocchi, Massimiliano ^a   Fernandez, Eduardo ^a   Ciampini, Alessandro ^a   Di Rocco, Concezio ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Craniocervical junction instability; Down syndrome; Mucopolysaccaridosis; Os odontoideum; Sublaminar wiring

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOVERTEBRAL JUNCTION INSTABILITY; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; MALE; MORQUIO SYNDROME; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ODONTOID PROCESS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE FUSION; SPINE MALFORMATION; WIRE FIXATION; X RAY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ATLANTO-AXIAL JOINT; BONE WIRES; CHILD; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; JOINT INSTABILITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDOSIS IV; ODONTOID PROCESS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINAL FUSION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70350371716     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-009-0277-6     Document Type: Article

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