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Platybasia

Known as: Basilar impression, Platybasia [Disease/Finding], Flattening of the skull base 
A developmental deformity of the occipital bone and upper end of the cervical spine, in which the latter appears to have pushed the floor of the… 
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Arnold Chiari MalformationBasilar invaginationCervical AtlasCongenital failure of fusion

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2007
2007
MRI evaluation and measurement of the normal odontoid peg position.
Review
2002
Review
2002
Outcome in neurologically impaired patients with craniovertebral junction tuberculosis: results of combined anteroposterior surgery.
OBJECT The authors studied the immediate and long-term outcome after transoral decompression, occipitocervical fusion, and… 
2000
2000
MR imaging of the craniovertebral junction.
Abstract The rapid growth of MR imaging has brought a renewed interest in the craniovertebral junction. Many congenital and… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Basilar impression complicating osteogenesis imperfecta type IV: the clinical and neuroradiological findings in four cases
OBJECTIVES To describe the clinical and neuroradiological features of basilar impression in patients with osteogenesis imperfecta… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Occipitoatlantal and Occipitoaxial Hypermobility in Down Syndrome
Study Design In this study, the authors evaluated upper cervical spine in 75 children and adolescents with Down syndrome on the… 
Review
1982
Review
1982
Radiofrequency trigeminal rhizotomy in treatment of symptomatic non-neoplastic facial pain.
Twenty patients suffering from non-neoplastic symptomatic facial pain underwent percutaneous radiofrequency trigeminal thermo… 
1969
1969
Angiographic study on the vertebral artery in cases of deformities of the occipitocervical joint.
Vertebral arteriography was performed on 25 patients affected by basilar impression and was compared with those of 100 control… 
1961
1961
Diagnostic criteria of basilar impression.
For twenty years it has been apparent that the diagnosis of basilar impression depends primarily on radiological evaluation. The… 
1950
1950
Basilar impression of the skull.
THE anatomical features of basilar impression of the skull have long been known; its recognition during the lifetime of the… 
1943
1943
Basilar Impression: The Position of the Normal Odontoid1
In 1939 W. E. Chamberlain (1) called attention to the syndrome of basilar impression, which had been described in the European… 
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