The aetiology behind torticollis and variable spine defects in patients with Müllerian duct/renal aplasia-cervicothoracic somite dysplasia syndrome: 3D CT scan analysis

European Spine Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1720-1727

  Al Kaissi, Ali ^a,b   Ganger, Rudolf ^b   Hofstaetter, Jochen G ^a,c   Klaushofer, Klaus ^a   Grill, Franz ^b  

^a LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^b ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL SPEISING   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

CT scan; Failure of segmentation; Forestier disease; MURCS association; Posterior spine ankylosis; Torticollis

Indexed keywords

ANKYLOSING HYPEROSTOSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPLASIA; ECTOPIC KIDNEY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; JARCHO LEVIN SYNDROME; KIDNEY AGENESIS; MUELLERIAN DUCT; MULLERIAN DUCT RENAL APLASIA CERVICOTHORACIC SOMITE DYSPLASIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ODONTOID PROCESS; OSSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCOLIOSIS; SOMITE; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE FUSION; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TORTICOLLIS; UTERUS HORN; VERTEBRA BODY;

46, XX DISORDERS OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; ADOLESCENT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPEROSTOSIS, DIFFUSE IDIOPATHIC SKELETAL; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFANT; KIDNEY; MALE; MULLERIAN DUCTS; SOMITES; SPINAL DISEASES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TORTICOLLIS;

EID: 84855208114     PISSN: 09406719     EISSN: 14320932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-011-1835-1     Document Type: Article

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