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Endoscopic Endonasal Odontoidectomy

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Removal of the peg is a procedure often required to manage basilar impression compressing the brain stem and/or spinal cord because of irreducible atlanto-axial dislocation. Various pathologies may cause atlanto-axial dislocation such as congenital malformation and especially Arnold–Chiari type II, genetic degenerative transformation such as in Down’s syndrome, chronic inflammation related to rheumatoid arthritis and/or metabolic disorders, and finally trauma.

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Strasbourg University Hospital, Strasbourg, France

    Salvatore Chibbaro MD, PhD

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, Foch Hospital, Sursenes, France

    Stephan Gaillard MD

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  1. Div. of Neurosurgery Dept. of Neuroscien, University of Naples “Federico II” , Naples, Italy

    Paolo Cappabianca

  2. Div. of Neurosurgery Dept. of Neuroscien, University of Naples “Federico II” , Naples, Italy

    Luigi Maria Cavallo

  3. Div. of Neurosurgery Dept. of Neuroscien, University of Naples “Federico II” , Naples, Italy

    Oreste de Divitiis

  4. Div. of Neurosurgery Dept. of Neuroscien, University of Messina , Messina, Messina, Italy

    Felice Esposito

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Chibbaro, S., Gaillard, S. (2016). Endoscopic Endonasal Odontoidectomy. In: Cappabianca, P., Cavallo, L., de Divitiis, O., Esposito, F. (eds) Midline Skull Base Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21533-4_27

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