Concomitant fracture of bilateral occipital condyle and inferior clivus: what is the mechanism of injury?
With the routine use of multi-slice high resolution computed tomography, increasing number of occipital condyle fractures have been reported in the last decade. The authors report a very rare case of bilateral occipital condyle fracture complicated by the fracture of the inferior clivus and discuss the possible mechanisms of injury.
Dashti
Reza
R
Department of Neurosurgery, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Istanbul University, P.O. Box: 9, Cerrahpasa, Aksaray, 34303, Istanbul, Turkey. rdashti@istanbul.edu.tr
Ulu
Mustafa Onur
MO
Albayram
Sait
S
Aydin
Sabri
S
Ulusoy
Levent
L
Hanci
Murat
M
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