Pillow neck deformity with spinal cord injury treatment.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 19 Pillow neck deformity with spinal cord injury treatment Author: Fan-hua, Hu Xue-Yu, Zhuo-Jing Luo [Keywords:] deformity [Keywords:] deformity; cervical; spinal cord injury 0 Introduction Upper cervical pillow neck deformity or deformity refers to the atlantoaxial and its subsidiary structure and connected to the occipital bone and contains nerve tissue, due to congenital factors anatomical abnormalities, and sometimes accompanied by far the Ministry of deformity. Occipital neck clinical malformations are not uncommon. that part of the complex structure, combined with the process of embryonic development of the special co-existence of multiple structures may occur malformation, but limited means of imaging examinations and the lack of research on embryonic development, resulting in the past, only to meet a kinds of malformations and the omission of other possible co-existence of structural abnormalities. the human occipital bone of the neck with a complete anatomical structures and fiber to maintain its stability and function, motor function and protection. this part of the malformation affects its function, in a certain conditions such as trauma, degeneration, the easily lead to spinal cord compression or injury, serious cases will affect the lives of. malformation itself is inevitable, and the treatment to be solved is the instability and spinal cord compression on two issues. occipital cervical abnormalities mainly include: ① tooth abnormalities sudden education; ② ring pillow integration (the occipital bone of the atlas); ③ flat base of the skull and basilar invagination; ④ foramen magnum stenosis (cervical vertebrae of the occipital bone); ⑤ absence of posterior arch of atlas; ⑥ atlas after the bridge ; ⑦ nervous system malformations. We only list the type of which is relatively common, and the disease classification, diagnosis and treatment should be described briefly. A sterile tooth deformity burst 1.1 sub-type, di