Basilar impression and osteogenesis imperfecta in a three-year-old girl: CT and MRI.
A 3-year-old girl with osteogenesis imperfecta developed symptomatic basilar impression. Her neurological symptoms were treated by foramen magnum decompression and laminectomy. This is an unusually young patient to have this condition.
Rush
P J
PJ
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Hugh Macmillan Medical Centre, Canada.
Berbrayer
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Reilly
B J
BJ
D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D010013:Osteogenesis Imperfecta / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012886:Skull / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed