Duplication of the Alar Ligaments: A Case Report

The alar ligament is one of the two strongest ligaments stabilizing the craniocervical junction. The literature describes many variations of the attachment, insertion, shape, and orientation of the alar ligament and an understanding of these variations is vital as they can lead to altered biomechani...

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Autores principales: Rizvi, Asad, Iwanaga, Joe, Oskouian, Rod J, Loukas, Marios, Tubbs, R. Shane
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Neurology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6116888/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30174999
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2893
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author Rizvi, Asad
Iwanaga, Joe
Oskouian, Rod J
Loukas, Marios
Tubbs, R. Shane
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description The alar ligament is one of the two strongest ligaments stabilizing the craniocervical junction. The literature describes many variations of the attachment, insertion, shape, and orientation of the alar ligament and an understanding of these variations is vital as they can lead to altered biomechanics or misinterpretation on imaging. Herein, we report, to our knowledge, the first case of duplication of the alar ligaments and discuss the anatomical variations present in the literature.
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spelling pubmed-61168882018-08-31 Duplication of the Alar Ligaments: A Case Report Rizvi, Asad Iwanaga, Joe Oskouian, Rod J Loukas, Marios Tubbs, R. Shane Cureus Neurology The alar ligament is one of the two strongest ligaments stabilizing the craniocervical junction. The literature describes many variations of the attachment, insertion, shape, and orientation of the alar ligament and an understanding of these variations is vital as they can lead to altered biomechanics or misinterpretation on imaging. Herein, we report, to our knowledge, the first case of duplication of the alar ligaments and discuss the anatomical variations present in the literature. Cureus 2018-06-29 /pmc/articles/PMC6116888/ /pubmed/30174999 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2893 Text en Copyright © 2018, Rizvi et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited.
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Duplication of the Alar Ligaments: A Case Report
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title_short Duplication of the Alar Ligaments: A Case Report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6116888/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30174999
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2893
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