Introduction: The occipital condyles are undersurface protruberances of the bone in vertebrates, which articulate with superior facets atlas vertebra. oval or reniform shape, and their anterior extremities directed forward medially closer together than posterior end. Aim: aim study is to provide important anatomical parameters for lateral transcondylar approach. Materials Methods: 200 100 dry h...

AIM Achondroplasia can result in respiratory difficulty in early infancy. The aim of this study was to document lung growth during infancy, together with the cause of any cardiorespiratory and sleep dysfunction. PATIENTS AND METHODS Seventeen prospectively ascertained infants (14 boys and three girls) with respiratory symptoms starting before 1 year of age underwent clinical, sleep, and lung ...

OBJECTIVE Cerebral vasospasm can occur after skull base tumor removal. Few studies concentrated on the posterior circulation vasospasm after tumor resection in the posterior fossa. We aimed to identify the risk factors associated with postoperative vertebrobasilar vasospasm after tumor resection in the foramen magnum. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the data of 62 patients with tumors in ...

OBJECTIVE We previously reported the resolution of syringohydromyelia without cerebellar tonsillar ectopia in five patients after posterior fossa decompression of the so-called Chiari 0 malformation. A sixth patient is described. In this study, the anatomy of the posterior fossa is analyzed using radiological imaging, enabling features of the posterior fossa in this uncommon subgroup of childre...

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