Open AccessManagement of traumatic atlanto-axial instability: A retrospective study of eight cases
Author(s) -
Arjun Shetty,
Abhishek Kini,
Ashish Gupta,
Anil Kumar,
Sunil Upadhyaya
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
indian journal of orthopaedics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.434
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1998-3727
pISSN - 0019-5413
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5413.91641
Subject(s) - medicine , retrospective cohort study , general surgery , surgery
C1 lateral mass-C2 transpedicular fixation is an accepted surgical procedure of choice in a large number of cases with traumatic atlanto-axial instability. However, bony and vascular anomalies can predispose to unacceptably high risk with this procedure, And hence are the contraindications for this procedure. The purpose of this study is to analyze the clinical and radiological results in such cases for which only unilateral fixation has been performed in cases where bilateral fixation could not be performed due to various reasons.