Abstract
This is a very rare congenital condition, in which there is hypoplasia of the atlantal arch leading to cervical stenosis and subsequent cervical myelopathy.
Abstracted from Nishikawa et al. (2001)
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Eltorai, I.M. (2016). Myelopathy Due to Congenital Hypoplasia of the Atlas. In: Rare Diseases and Syndromes of the Spinal Cord. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45147-3_2
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