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ArticleJournal of neurosciences in rural practice2021

Intraoperative Computed Tomography Scanner-Guided Craniovertebral Junction Surgery in a Patient with an Occipitalized C1.

Mohammad Ashraf, Usman Ahmad Kamboh, Naveed Ashraf

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Article in Journal of neurosciences in rural practice, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Mohammad AshrafWolfson School of Medicine, University of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-3863-5872
Usman Ahmad KambohDepartment of Neurosurgery, Allama Iqbal Medical College, Jinnah Hospital Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan.
Naveed AshrafDepartment of Neurosurgery, Allama Iqbal Medical College, Jinnah Hospital Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan.
Allama Iqbal Medical College · PKJinnah Postgraduate Medical Center · PK

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Craniovertebral junction surgery is associated with unique difficulties. Type 2 odontoid fractures (Anderson and D Alonzo) have a great potential for nonunion and malunion. These fracture patients may require a circumferential decompression and fixation. The addition of intraoperative CT with neuronavigation greatly aids in craniovertebral junction surgery. We operated on a 59-year-old-male with a type 2 fracture with posterior subluxation of C1 anterior arch and a cranially displaced odontoid peg. First, a transoral odontoidectomy was performed followed by a craniocervical fixation. Occipital plates and C3-C4 lateral mass screws were used as C1 was discovered to be occipitalized intraoperatively and atlantoaxial facet joints could not be reduced as discovered by intraoperative CT resconstruction. Intraoperative CT scan was crucial to this circumferential decompression and fixation, allowed us to resect the odontoid peg safely and completely and to confirm adequate screw trajectory making this complex surgery easier for us and safer for the patient. The patient was discharged 4 months after admission with stable neurology. Intraoperative CT was fundamental to correct decision making.

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craniocervical junction surgerycraniovertebral junction surgeryintraoperative CT scanneroccipitalized C1type 2 odontoid fracture

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