Os Odontoideum: Rare Cervical Lesion

We report the case of a 22-year-old Marine who presented to the emergency department, after a martial arts exercise, with transient weakness and numbness in all extremities. Computed tomography cervical spine radiographs revealed os odontoideum. Lateral flexion–extension radiographs identified atlan...

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Autor principal: Robson, Kristie A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine 2011
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Clinical Practice
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3236172/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22224150
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2011.4.2029
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description We report the case of a 22-year-old Marine who presented to the emergency department, after a martial arts exercise, with transient weakness and numbness in all extremities. Computed tomography cervical spine radiographs revealed os odontoideum. Lateral flexion–extension radiographs identified atlanto-axillary instability. This abnormality is rare and can be career ending for military members who do not undergo surgical fusion.
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spelling pubmed-32361722012-01-05 Os Odontoideum: Rare Cervical Lesion Robson, Kristie A West J Emerg Med Clinical Practice We report the case of a 22-year-old Marine who presented to the emergency department, after a martial arts exercise, with transient weakness and numbness in all extremities. Computed tomography cervical spine radiographs revealed os odontoideum. Lateral flexion–extension radiographs identified atlanto-axillary instability. This abnormality is rare and can be career ending for military members who do not undergo surgical fusion. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine 2011-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3236172/ /pubmed/22224150 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2011.4.2029 Text en the authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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Os Odontoideum: Rare Cervical Lesion
title Os Odontoideum: Rare Cervical Lesion
title_full Os Odontoideum: Rare Cervical Lesion
title_fullStr Os Odontoideum: Rare Cervical Lesion
title_full_unstemmed Os Odontoideum: Rare Cervical Lesion
title_short Os Odontoideum: Rare Cervical Lesion
title_sort os odontoideum: rare cervical lesion
topic Clinical Practice
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3236172/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22224150
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2011.4.2029
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