Ossification of the Cruciform Ligament of Atlas; a Rare Cause of Cervical Myelopathy: Case Report and Review of Literature

We present a case of cervical myelopathy secondary to ossification of the cruciform ligament (also known as cruciate ligament). This is a rare phenomenon that, to the best of our knowledge, has only been reported 16 times previously in literature. We have added a review of literature after our case...

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Autores principales: Baqai, Muhammad Waqas Saeed, Javed, Gohar, Baig, Mirza Zain
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6703042/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31497151
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_76_19
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description We present a case of cervical myelopathy secondary to ossification of the cruciform ligament (also known as cruciate ligament). This is a rare phenomenon that, to the best of our knowledge, has only been reported 16 times previously in literature. We have added a review of literature after our case presentation. We hope that by doing so, we may aid clinicians reach early diagnosis so as to be able to better manage this rare disease.
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spelling pubmed-67030422019-09-06 Ossification of the Cruciform Ligament of Atlas; a Rare Cause of Cervical Myelopathy: Case Report and Review of Literature Baqai, Muhammad Waqas Saeed Javed, Gohar Baig, Mirza Zain Asian J Neurosurg Case Report We present a case of cervical myelopathy secondary to ossification of the cruciform ligament (also known as cruciate ligament). This is a rare phenomenon that, to the best of our knowledge, has only been reported 16 times previously in literature. We have added a review of literature after our case presentation. We hope that by doing so, we may aid clinicians reach early diagnosis so as to be able to better manage this rare disease. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6703042/ /pubmed/31497151 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_76_19 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Asian Journal of Neurosurgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Ossification of the Cruciform Ligament of Atlas; a Rare Cause of Cervical Myelopathy: Case Report and Review of Literature
title Ossification of the Cruciform Ligament of Atlas; a Rare Cause of Cervical Myelopathy: Case Report and Review of Literature
title_full Ossification of the Cruciform Ligament of Atlas; a Rare Cause of Cervical Myelopathy: Case Report and Review of Literature
title_fullStr Ossification of the Cruciform Ligament of Atlas; a Rare Cause of Cervical Myelopathy: Case Report and Review of Literature
title_full_unstemmed Ossification of the Cruciform Ligament of Atlas; a Rare Cause of Cervical Myelopathy: Case Report and Review of Literature
title_short Ossification of the Cruciform Ligament of Atlas; a Rare Cause of Cervical Myelopathy: Case Report and Review of Literature
title_sort ossification of the cruciform ligament of atlas; a rare cause of cervical myelopathy: case report and review of literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6703042/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_76_19
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