A Traumatic Dislocation of the Atlas from the Axis in a Patient with Atlantooccipital Assimilation

Atlantooccipital assimilation is defined as the complete or partial fusion of the caudal portion of the occiput with the cranial portion of the atlas. We report an extremely rare case of a traumatic dislocation of the atlas from the axis (C1 from C2), which lead to internal decapitation in a patient...

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Autores principales: Gnanadev, Raja, Ishak, Basem, Iwanaga, Joe, Loukas, Marios, Tubbs, R. Shane
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Neurosurgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6559688/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31245192
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4402
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author Gnanadev, Raja
Ishak, Basem
Iwanaga, Joe
Loukas, Marios
Tubbs, R. Shane
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description Atlantooccipital assimilation is defined as the complete or partial fusion of the caudal portion of the occiput with the cranial portion of the atlas. We report an extremely rare case of a traumatic dislocation of the atlas from the axis (C1 from C2), which lead to internal decapitation in a patient with atlantooccipital assimilation. This report reviews the background of atlantooccipital assimilations and their clinical relevance.
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spelling pubmed-65596882019-06-26 A Traumatic Dislocation of the Atlas from the Axis in a Patient with Atlantooccipital Assimilation Gnanadev, Raja Ishak, Basem Iwanaga, Joe Loukas, Marios Tubbs, R. Shane Cureus Neurosurgery Atlantooccipital assimilation is defined as the complete or partial fusion of the caudal portion of the occiput with the cranial portion of the atlas. We report an extremely rare case of a traumatic dislocation of the atlas from the axis (C1 from C2), which lead to internal decapitation in a patient with atlantooccipital assimilation. This report reviews the background of atlantooccipital assimilations and their clinical relevance. Cureus 2019-04-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6559688/ /pubmed/31245192 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4402 Text en Copyright © 2019, Gnanadev 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.
spellingShingle Neurosurgery
Gnanadev, Raja
Ishak, Basem
Iwanaga, Joe
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A Traumatic Dislocation of the Atlas from the Axis in a Patient with Atlantooccipital Assimilation
title A Traumatic Dislocation of the Atlas from the Axis in a Patient with Atlantooccipital Assimilation
title_full A Traumatic Dislocation of the Atlas from the Axis in a Patient with Atlantooccipital Assimilation
title_fullStr A Traumatic Dislocation of the Atlas from the Axis in a Patient with Atlantooccipital Assimilation
title_full_unstemmed A Traumatic Dislocation of the Atlas from the Axis in a Patient with Atlantooccipital Assimilation
title_short A Traumatic Dislocation of the Atlas from the Axis in a Patient with Atlantooccipital Assimilation
title_sort traumatic dislocation of the atlas from the axis in a patient with atlantooccipital assimilation
topic Neurosurgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6559688/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31245192
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4402
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