Cervical spinal stenosis and myelopathy due to atlas hypoplasia.
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.
Hsu
Yu-Hone
YH
Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Huang
Wen-Cheng
WC
Liou
Kang-Du
KD
Shih
Yang-Hsin
YH
Lee
Liang-Shong
LS
Cheng
Henrich
H
D000328:Adult; D001270:Cervical Atlas / Q000002:abnormalities*; D002574:Cervical Vertebrae; D019299:Decompression, Surgical; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013130:Spinal Stenosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery