title: [Metastases of the cervico-occipital junction. The value of tomographic detection of prefracture forms (author's transl)].
abstract: The authors stress the frequency of metastases of the cervico-occipital junction unrecognized in medical literature: 30 cases have been diagnosed within four months. They report their different patterns and complications and insist on the prefractured pattern with osteolysis of the body of C-2 which can be shown only by polytomography. The authors propose that a tomographic study of the cervico-occipital junction should be systematically included in every analysis of metastatic extension of osteophilic tumors.
mesh_terms: D002574:Cervical Vertebrae / Q000293:injuries; D005260:Female; D005598:Fractures, Spontaneous / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009777:Occipital Bone; D012888:Skull Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014056:Tomography, X-Ray
vernacular_title: Les métastases de la charnière cervico-occipitale. Intérêt de la détection tomographique des formes pré-fracturaires.