Case report: Congenital absence of the dens

A 36-year-old man presented with headache and right upper and lower limb weakness for 10 days. MRI revealed absence of the odontoid process of the C2 vertebral body, with resultant atlantoaxial dislocation along with myelomalacic changes involving the cervicomedullary junction.

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Autores principales: Bajaj, Manish, Jangid, Hemant, Vats, AK, Meena, ML
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
Materias:
Musculoskeletal
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2890915/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20607020
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.63050
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description A 36-year-old man presented with headache and right upper and lower limb weakness for 10 days. MRI revealed absence of the odontoid process of the C2 vertebral body, with resultant atlantoaxial dislocation along with myelomalacic changes involving the cervicomedullary junction.
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spelling pubmed-28909152010-07-06 Case report: Congenital absence of the dens Bajaj, Manish Jangid, Hemant Vats, AK Meena, ML Indian J Radiol Imaging Musculoskeletal A 36-year-old man presented with headache and right upper and lower limb weakness for 10 days. MRI revealed absence of the odontoid process of the C2 vertebral body, with resultant atlantoaxial dislocation along with myelomalacic changes involving the cervicomedullary junction. Medknow Publications 2010-05 /pmc/articles/PMC2890915/ /pubmed/20607020 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.63050 Text en © Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Case report: Congenital absence of the dens
title Case report: Congenital absence of the dens
title_full Case report: Congenital absence of the dens
title_fullStr Case report: Congenital absence of the dens
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title_short Case report: Congenital absence of the dens
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topic Musculoskeletal
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2890915/
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