Direct posterior reduction and fixation for the treatment of basilar invagination with atlantoaxial dislocation

Neurosurgery

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 678-687

  Jian, Feng Zeng ^a,b   Chen, Zan ^a,b   Wrede, Karsten H ^b,c   Samii, Madjid ^b,c   Ling, Feng ^a,b  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b China Institute of International Studies   (China)

^c International Neurological Institute Hannover   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atlantoaxial dislocation; Basilar invagination; Distraction; Reduction

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; ATLANTOAXIAL DISLOCATION; BASILAR ARTERY; BASILAR INVAGINATION; BONE PLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIRECT POSTERIOR REDUCTION AND FIXATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ODONTOID PROCESS; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PEDICLE SCREW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SKULL MALFORMATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATLANTO-AXIAL JOINT; DISLOCATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTERNAL FIXATORS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODONTOID PROCESS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINAL FUSION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949993249     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000367632.45384.5A     Document Type: Article

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