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ReviewChild's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery2024

Pediatric cervical spine instability: evolving concepts.

Yosef M Dastagirzada, Alex Konigsberg, Dominic Thompson, Richard C E Anderson

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Review in Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Outcomes of cranio-cervical junction and cervical tract treatment in children with spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Yosef M DastagirzadaNew York University Langone Medical Center, New York, USA. yosef.dastagirzada@nyulangone.org.
Alex KonigsbergNew York University Langone Medical Center, New York, USA.
Dominic ThompsonGreat Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
Richard C E AndersonNew York University Langone Medical Center, New York, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The pediatric cervical spine is structurally and biomechanically unique in comparison to adults. Guidelines to assess for cervical spine instability and standard of care treatments in the pediatric population have yet to be delineated. This is due to the rarity of the condition and the lack of multicenter data published on the topic. Our review explores the biomechanics of the pediatric cervical spine and highlights evolving concepts/research over the last several decades, with special attention to the Down syndrome and complex Chiari malformation cohorts.

Indexed as

Cervical VertebraeJoint InstabilityArnold-Chiari MalformationBiomechanical PhenomenaChildDown SyndromeHumansBiomechanicsCervical spineGenetic syndromesInstabilityPediatrics

Identifiers

PMID38900291

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