Cervical Congenital Kyphosis With Atlantoaxial Dislocation

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  • A Case Report

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Congenital kyphosis and atlantoaxial dislocation in a 13-year-old boy was treated by a C1 laminectomy and C2-C5 laminoplasty with fusion from the occiput to C2. This resulted in postoperative neurologic deterioration, but a secondary anterior C3 vertebrectomy followed by a C2-C5 fusion helped restore neural function. In the presence of congenital cervical kyphosis, anterior rather than posterior decompression and fusion is recommended, particularly in the presence of a stenotic spinal canal.

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  • Spine

    Spine 18 762-763, 1993-05-01

    Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

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