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Behari S, Jaiswal A, Srivastava A, et al. Os odontoideum with "free-floating" atlantal arch causing C1-2 anterolisthesis and retrolisthesis with cervicomedullary compression. Indian J Orthop. 2010;44(4):417-23doi: 10.4103/0019-5413.69316.
Behari, S., Jaiswal, A., Srivastava, A., Rajput, D., & Jain, V. K. (2010). Os odontoideum with "free-floating" atlantal arch causing C1-2 anterolisthesis and retrolisthesis with cervicomedullary compression. Indian journal of orthopaedics, 44(4), 417-23. https://doi.org/10.4103/0019-5413.69316
Behari, Sanjay, et al. "Os odontoideum with "free-floating" atlantal arch causing C1-2 anterolisthesis and retrolisthesis with cervicomedullary compression." Indian journal of orthopaedics vol. 44,4 (2010): 417-23. doi: https://doi.org/10.4103/0019-5413.69316
Behari S, Jaiswal A, Srivastava A, Rajput D, Jain VK. Os odontoideum with "free-floating" atlantal arch causing C1-2 anterolisthesis and retrolisthesis with cervicomedullary compression. Indian J Orthop. 2010 Oct;44(4):417-23. doi: 10.4103/0019-5413.69316. PMID: 20924483; PMCID: PMC2947729.
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Indian J Orthop. 2010 Oct;44(4):417-23. doi: 10.4103/0019-5413.69316.

Os odontoideum with "free-floating" atlantal arch causing C1-2 anterolisthesis and retrolisthesis with cervicomedullary compression.

Indian journal of orthopaedics

Sanjay Behari, Awadhesh Jaiswal, Arun Srivastava, Dinesh Rajput, Vijendra K Jain

Affiliations

  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow - 226 014, India.

PMID: 20924483 PMCID: PMC2947729 DOI: 10.4103/0019-5413.69316

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Os odontoideum (OO) with C1-2 anterolisthesis and retrolisthesis may cause cervicomedullary injury both from anterior and posterior aspects. We analyzed fourteen such patients for biomechanical issues, radiological features and management of OO with free-floating atlantal arch and review pertinent literature.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: Fourteen patients having nonsyndromic, reducible atlantoaxial dislocation (AAD) with orthotopic OO were analyzed. During neck flexion, their C1 anterior arch-os complex displaced anteriorly relative to remnant odontoid-C2 body. The posteriorly directed hypoplastic remnant odontoid sliding below the atlas and forward translation of the C1 posterior arch caused concomitant cervicomedullary compression. During neck extension, there was retrolisthesis of the "free-floating" C1 arch-os complex into spinal canal. Spinal stenosis and lateral C1-2 facet dislocation; Klippel-Feil anomaly; and posterior circulation infarcts were also present in one patient each, respectively. Posterior C1-2 (n=10) or occipitocervical fusion (n=3) was performed in neutral position to stabilize atlantoaxial movements.

RESULTS: Follow-up (mean, 3.9 years) assessment revealed improvement in spasticity and weakness in 13 patients. One patient had neurological deterioration following C1-2 posterior sublaminar fusion, requiring its conversion to occipitocervical contoured rod fusion. One patient with posterior circulation stroke died prior to any operative intervention. Follow-up lateral view radiographs showed a bony union or a stable construct in these 13 patients.

CONCLUSIONS: OO with free-floating atlantal arch may precipitate cord injury both during neck flexion and extension. This condition may be overlooked unless lateral radiographs of craniovertebral junction are undertaken in neck extension, along with the usual ones in neutral and flexed positions. Etiological factors include C1 ring-OO unrestrained movements above the hypoplastic odontoid; upward pull on OO by alar and apical ligaments; lax C1-2 facet joint ligaments; and congenital presence of horizontal facet joint surfaces that facilitates C1-2 translation.

Keywords: Atlantoaxial dislocation; craniovertebral junction; os odontoideum; posterior dislocation; surgery

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