title: Cervical spinal stenosis and myelopathy due to atlas hypoplasia.
abstract: This paper describes a patient who presented at our hospital with neurologic symptoms due to congenital cervical spinal stenosis at the atlas level. Congenital atlantal stenosis is usually due to hypoplasia of the posterior arch of the atlas. It is a rare cause of spinal stenosis, and only 12 symptomatic patients with isolated atlantal stenosis have been reported. Current treatment is surgical decompression, and all reported patients receiving surgical treatment improved to some degree.
authors: Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
authors: Yu-Hone
authors: YH
authors: Hsu
authors: Wen-Cheng
authors: WC
authors: Huang
authors: Kang-Du
authors: KD
authors: Liou
authors: Yang-Hsin
authors: YH
authors: Shih
authors: Liang-Shong
authors: LS
authors: Lee
authors: Henrich
authors: H
authors: Cheng
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001270:Cervical Atlas / Q000002:abnormalities*; D002574:Cervical Vertebrae; D019299:Decompression, Surgical; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013130:Spinal Stenosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery