ONE STAGE TRANSORAL ODONTOIDECTOMY AND POSTERIOR FIXATION IN ODONTOID FRACTURE; TECHNICAL NOTE

Turgut KÖKSEL; Işık DiLEK; Özcan ÇIKLATEKERLIOĞLU; Altay BEDÜK; Gökhan ACKA; Hülya TÜRKAN

Issue release date: 12.11.2024

Current Issue

Ahead Of Print

Archive

Subscription for Hardcopy

Turkish Neurosurgery 1996 , Vol 6 , Num 1-2

Abstract PDF Similar Articles

ONE STAGE TRANSORAL ODONTOIDECTOMY AND POSTERIOR FIXATION IN ODONTOID FRACTURE; TECHNICAL NOTE

Turgut KÖKSEL¹, Işık DiLEK¹, Özcan ÇIKLATEKERLIOĞLU¹, Altay BEDÜK¹, Gökhan ACKA, Hülya TÜRKAN²

¹Gülhane Military Medical Faculty, Department of Neurosurgery, Ankara, Türkiye
²Gülhane Military Medical Faculty, Department of Anesthesiology, Ankara, Türkiye In this paper, we report a traumatic atlanto-axial subluxation (odontoid peg fracture type II ) which is treated by one- stage transoral decompression and posterior fixation. Keywords : Transoral approach, odontoid resection, occipitocervical fixation

Corresponding author : Turgut Köksel