title: Giant cell tumor of the upper cervical spine: transmandibular-translingual access. Clinical case.
abstract: The authors describe the clinical case of a patient aged 18 years affected with giant cell tumor (GCT) at C3 who came to the surgical unit of Orthopaedics and Traumatology at the Ospedale Maggiore in Bologna after being treated by surgery elsewhere. Particular attention is paid to surgical access by means of median transmandibuloglossotomy used in order to obtain a sufficiently wide surgical field that can adequately expose the vertebral segment affected by neoplastic disease. In particular, possible complications that may be observed postsurgery can be compared to other surgical approaches to the upper cervical spine and above all that there are no permanent clinical sequelae.
authors.affiliation: Divisione di Ortopedia e Traumatologia-Ospedale Maggiore, Bologna.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cappuccio
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bandiera
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gasbarrini
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: De Iure
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Barbanti Bròdano
authors.forename: G B
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Scimeca
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Presutti
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cocchi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Boriani
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002574:Cervical Vertebrae / Q000601:surgery*; D005870:Giant Cell Tumors / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008334:Mandible / Q000601:surgery*; D011859:Radiography; D012086:Reoperation; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D014059:Tongue / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome