Occipital-cervical fusion in unstable fracture of Jefferson-type atlas
Keywords:
occipital-cervical fusion, Jefferson type fracture, instability.Abstract
Atlas fractures are the second most common type of upper cervical spine injuries. This work pretends to describe the occipital-cervical fixation as a treatment for the unstable Jefferson-type atlas fracture. A patient suffering from spinal cord trauma is presented, after undergoing a meticulous physical examination and a computed tomography of the cervical spine, a Jefferson type fracture of atlas with more than 7 mm of separation of its fragments is detected. Being an instable fracture of the high cervical region we decided to perform an occipital-cervical fixation as a method for treating this lesion. Postsurgical evolutions of the patient run smoothly.
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