This patient’s case highlights the hazards of nonunited odontoid fractures in adults. Rarely, such pseudoarthrosis may predispose the patient to mechanical neck pain 1 and progressive craniocervical ...

Barrett I. Woods, MD, from University of Pittsburgh, and colleagues retrospectively reviewed all odontoid fractures in 75 patients ≥75 years of age from 1996–2010 and compared operative and ...

Sheikh said these findings underscore the importance of multidisciplinary cooperation in the treatment of patients with odontoid peg fractures. “These patients are currently admitted under ...

ABSENCE of the odontoid process of the second cervical vertebra has been reported infrequently since the original description by Roberts. 1 We have collected 19 cases ...